Nice friendly hackers have been at the Friends of Baildon Moor site again. The site was not working and was defaced but I found a few interesting things around. The footer PHP file had been modified with some interesting code that looked as though it was doing something with usernames and passwords and had a stack of encoded text. A couple of directories also had some cgi script in them and .htaccess files that looked as though they would run the script.<\/p>\n
The most interesting directory was in the theme directory and contained just short of 43000 text files with names that seemed to be <user> followed by one of -host -cpanel -joomla -wordpress -oscommerce -zencart -billing -phpBB -SMF -vb3.<\/p>\n
The files were only created in the morning but I am unable to get rid of them. According to my FTP client the permission on them all is 777 which I thought was prevented by the host system. I was unable to delete them and I was unable to change permissions on them nor could I open them. My HTML editor that uses FTP to connect to sites did not even show the files and the web based file manager within the hosting just gave me a twirly busy icon.<\/p>\n
I raised a ticket on my hosting company and also phoned them. They sounded grateful and said that someone would investigate as soon as possible. The files are still there an hour later!<\/p>\n
If nothing else this helps while away the evenings but I can think of better things to do – I am falling behind on reviewing my photos, I am taking them quicker than I can delete them.<\/p>\n
Update: My hosting company removed the files at 6:00 the following morning and did not seem overly concerned that I had almost 43000 files that seemed to have the user name for every account on the sever. I tried a random sample of the names in my browser <IP Address>\/~account name and every one came back with a website or “Account suspended”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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