Massive Website Hacks In Belarus

• 20.12.2024, 14:12

Unauthorized access to more than 100 websites occurred in 12 minutes.

The cybersecurity center of the Belarusian hosting provider hoster.by reported an attempt at a mass hack of websites. According to its information, "unauthorized access to more than 100 websites occurred in 12 minutes."

As reported by hoster.by, the incident occurred on December 16. The target was 90 OpenCart websites and almost 30 WordPress websites.

The company noted that the hackers' goal was "to change the code to redirect visitors to third-party web resources and collect data about them." The vulnerability of the websites was caused by weak passwords, such as admin or test:test123.

"All logins were made on the first try and in a short period of 12 minutes. This suggests that the attackers had all the logins and passwords for the web resources in advance. It can be concluded that the cyber attack was pre-planned and automated. Consequently, it could have affected clients of all hosting providers, given the popularity of the attacked CMS," hoster.by said.