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Fan of Twilight? Be Very Careful If You’re Looking Online For It

14
Jul
2012

If you like the Twilight series, be careful if you plan to do any “research” on it, or if you plan to visit the site of the series author (Stephenie Meyer). Her site is currently hacked, blacklisted, and redirecting users to the Blackhole Exploit Kit.

You can see the results on the sitecheck:

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.stepheniemeyer.com/

This is what Google is saying:

What is the current listing status for stepheniemeyer.com?
Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this website may harm your computer.

Of the 7 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-07-13, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-07-13.
Malicious software includes 2 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including microsoft-apt.co.uk/.

How did her site got hacked? It seems she is using an outdated version of Plesk that is being mass used to compromise web sites. Hopefully she will fix it soon.

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