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Update on ThePlanet and Hostgator

Last month we started an investigation into the massive numbers of infections we saw on ThePlanet’s AS21844 network. Last week we discovered the Rwhois server at ThePlanet and were able to get a more fine grained view of the infection … Continue reading

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Update on Sustained Infections at ThePlanet (Skenzo and Host Gator)

I’ve been working on my investigation of ThePlanet and have some new and interesting results. Skenzo has some valid concerns. They monetize abandoned domain names and apparently inherited a bunch of abandoned badware URLs. When Google rescans a site on … Continue reading

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