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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday November 12 2019, @04:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-sites-are-belong-to-us dept.

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Ransomware Attack Downs Hosting Service SmarterASP.NET

SmarterASP.NET, a popular web hosting provider with more than 440,480 customers, has been hit with a ransomware attack that took down its customers’ websites that were hosted by the company. The company on Monday said it is in the process of recovering impacted data.

SmarterASP.NET offers shared web hosting services – which allow many websites to reside on one web server connected to the internet – for customers. Many SmarterASP.NET customers specifically are looking to host ASP.NET sites. ASP.NET is an open source web framework, created by Microsoft, for building web apps and services with .NET.

According to reports, the ransomware attack hit and encrypted customers’ web hosting accounts – which give customers access to servers where they can store files and data required to run their websites – thus crippling customer websites. SmarterASP.NET’s website was also initially downed by the attack, but has since been recovered.

“Your hosting account was under attack and hackers have encrypted all your data,” according to a Monday notice on SmartASP’s website. “We are now working with security experts to try to decrypt your data and also to make sure this would never happen again.  Please stay tune for more info.”

While it’s unclear when the ransomware attack first hit, a rash of Tweets, starting Nov. 9, show customers angered that they were not notified of the attack via email after their services stopped.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @06:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 12 2019, @06:07PM (#919486)

    NotSmarterASP.NET

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday November 12 2019, @07:09PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 12 2019, @07:09PM (#919511) Journal

    The article does not mention what OS and server technology SmarterASP.NET was using, leaving us wondering and speculating.

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    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday November 12 2019, @07:16PM (2 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday November 12 2019, @07:16PM (#919517) Homepage
      Well, it's got "Smart" in the name, so it was pretty much guaranteed to be something mindbogglingly retarded.
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      • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Tuesday November 12 2019, @07:54PM (1 child)

        by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 12 2019, @07:54PM (#919527) Journal

        Yep. You nailed that one on the first guess: windows server 2012 [netcraft.com]. Though the heavy hints were in the presence of ASP in the company name itself and more or less gave that away without having to look further.

        When it is a question of ransomware, it is to-date always a matter of sub-standard technology, also known as M$ Windows.

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        • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday November 12 2019, @09:30PM

          by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday November 12 2019, @09:30PM (#919556)

          Netcraft confirmed it.

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