“Dutch hosting company Webstekker struggling with security incident”

The Dutch hoster Webstekker struggling for almost a week with the consequences of a non-specified ‘security incident’. According to the company, there are sites ‘vandals’; users report that there are rogue files are placed.

Thursday, Webstekker known security incident to camps under other for slow connections would provide. The company let us know the case with an external beveiligingsonderzoeker to analyze. In an update Monday to let the company know that the investigation is still ongoing and that it is proven that there are a number of sites is ‘scarred’. “These sites allow for the performance issues which we are a part of our network experience,” said Webstekker, “Our engineers are currently in the process of these sites to isolate the problem, then to fix it.”

Some of the customers of the hosting company to report on Gathering of Tweakers to have problems with their sites at Webstekker.” I can sometimes be in real time see that there are strange files on the sites, in particular search engine spam”, says for example, ‘Herbert-Jan. ‘Arcom’ struggling with similar problems: “The webrootfolder of my site on the Webstekker ftp site was suddenly filled with malicious files that all advertising had to do. The origin of the files seems to be somewhere in Eastern Europe.” ‘Corski’ talks about the ‘all kinds of junk from the online-shop from Brazil’. It is unclear whether the problems are a result of the security incident.

Opposite Tweakers can Webstekker no clarity about the issues. “The technical people there are still busy working on it, if I would bother, it would still take longer for it has been resolved”, says the comment of an employee of the company.