Hackers strike again!
A large internet service provider said data for as many as 100,000 websites was destroyed by attackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a widely-used virtualization application.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/08/webhost_attack/
Technicians at UK-based Vaserv.com were still scrambling to recover data on Monday evening UK time, more than 24 hours after unknown hackers were able to gain root access to the company’s system, Rus Foster, the company’s director told The Register. He said the attackers were able to penetrate his servers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in HyperVM, a virtualization application made by a company called LXLabs. “We were hit by a zero-day exploit” in version 2.0.7992 of the application, he said. “I’ve heard from other people they’ve been hit by the same thing.”
Unluckily, my VPS sandbox / filedump is hosted with them 
Though it looks like other webhosts with HyperVM got hacked as well.
The vulnerabilities of their platform was published by milw0rm:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8880
Posted by Tofu on Tue 06/09/2009 at 23:52:27 UTC+10 under Tech & Online.
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Tagged: 0day, hack, hosting, HyperVM, web
