WordPress sites hacked and infected with Ngioweb Linux malware; hijacked into commercial proxy service.
A website offering both free and commercial proxy servers is actually running on top of a giant botnet of hacked WordPress sites, security researchers from Netlab, a network threat hunting unit of Chinese cyber-security giant Qihoo 360, have revealed.
In a report published today, Netlab researchers accused the Free-Socks.in proxy service of masquerading as a front for a criminal operation. Researchers said that users who would use any of the proxy servers provided by the Free-Socks.in website would actually have their traffic funneled through a network of hacked WordPress sites spread all over the world.