To the Russian hackers who think it’s fun to redirect someone’s website with hundreds of .htaccess files buried in every single goddamn subdirectory, all of them updatable and executable remotely so that missing even one means that the whole thing can reproprogate the next time you wander by? Fuck you.
I’ll be taking it up with my site host, of course, but in the meantime I have spent hours on this, twice, and I am not a happy camper. I don’t understand this kind of random, superficial malice, and I think the people who go on this kind of spree are childish, because it is the way of children to hurt things that can’t fight back. Work out your issues, dude, and leave my site alone.
My apologies to all who came by and found no one home. I’m here, really! I’m five hours behind, but I’m here.
Sheesh, sorry to hear that. Sadly this kind of thing is common. It’s a petty crime that earns the hacker a few bucks a day, but often it’s automated and done in en-masse. It’d be good to report this to IC3 so it can be tracked. http://www.ic3.gov
I have a couple of theories about the why of this sort of hacking. One is that it’s a way to test the effectiveness of an attack, or possibly to inspire a reaction that creates a further vulnerability. The other is that ultimately the goal is extortion: pay me x dollars and I’ll leave your site alone. It won’t be anything as direct and obvious as that, but that will be the goal.
That sounds like a nightmare. I’m so sorry that there are such idiots in the world.