[wp-forums] Strange hack?

[Drew]

wpstats.org's A record is definitely resolving to 127.0.0.1:
http://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/wpstats.org

They may be having a bit of fun with whomever's sites they've compromised.


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com>wrote:

> This user is talking about a hack concerning wpstats.org here
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wwwwpstatsorg-jquery-hack-404-error?replies=1
>
> and it looks like this:
> http://blog.sucuri.net/2012/05/wpstats-org-spam-and-a-fake-advanced-search-plugin.html
>
> When I go to wpstats.org on OS X, I get phpmyadmin and see my database on
> my localhost server, because DNS shows the A record for wpstats.orgpoints to 127.0.0.1 Is that part of their hack? Or is that site dead?
>
> -- Mark
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