Australian Websites Hacked Costing Millions

Hackers purporting to be from Kosovo have been causing havoc across Australia today with thousands of Internet Sites hacked.

Hackers believed to be from Kosovo have been causing havoc across Australia today.

Some Australian sites hosted over seas were hit hard by the Kosovo hackers.

Perth Internet Marketing http://perth-internetmarketing.com.au were hit hard with 10 of their older sites hacked which caused delays until they were repaired.

Peter Davis said: "We were quite lucky in a way, they only defaced the home page and denied access to the admin areas of sites. They did not destroy data. Once we found the cause and repaired the damaged files we were up and running again"

Viruses, Trojans and Hackers have been causing billions of dollars in damage over the years and are a true threat to the safety of the Internet.

This time it appears that the hackers found and exploited a fault in the popular WordPress platform to cause this latest round of mischief.

Administrators are denied access to their own sites, virtually locking them out of any way to edit or update contents.

It appears that this trojan entered via host computers as sites hosted by the same company were affected the most. Anti-Virus software appeared to have little or no effect. It is suspected that the trojan entered via WordPress itself, attacking sites with older versions of WordPress.

Home Pages display various messages and pictures dealing with the Kosovo and in particular the " We remember them the Republic of Kosova Hackers" messages splash across screens.

Some of the hacked sites just show a line of text proclaiming to be the same group. Some splash screens are very elaborate with Albanian music playing.

Unfortunately this group of hackers have hit all around the world and its important that administrators ensure that security is first and foremost in developing websites. Websites with the latest WordPress installed seem to be unaffected.

If you are running WordPress make sure version 3.2.1 is installed.

http://perth-internetmarketing.com.au worked out a fix to repair any sites affected by the hackers.

Send a Blank Email [email protected] for their solution to the hack.

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