Registrar Namecheap let miscreants slap spam, malware on customers’ web domains willy-nilly

Namecheap has admitted it let customers set up and control subdomains for domain names belonging to other customers, allowing miscreants to distribute malware from strangers’ websites. These hijacked sites were subsequently flagged up as malicious by Google’s search engine, blocking netizens from visiting them, and piling further misery on webmasters.

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