Boy, when it hits…it really hits, I guess. According to Internet Week, an exploit allowed malicious code to be executed on shared servers, thus turning them into zombies for who knows what. Most interesting of all though, is that the hacker used dynamic IP addressing to stay just one step ahead of those who would like to see people like this brought to justice.

The Internet Storm Center (ISC) tracked a large-scale hack over the weekend that infected site-hosting servers, which in turn transformed all the hosted sites into distributors of malicious code.

“We have received reports and evidence that a number of companies that provide shared hosting Web servers have had their servers exploited and all of the customer homepages modified so that visitors are attacked,” said the Storm Center’s Daniel Wesemann Sunday in an online posting.

It seems that the attack used both direct and indirect means to infect users, said the ISC. In some cases, a script was appended to all home pages of the sites hosted on the compromised servers; the script redirected visitors of those pages to a malicious site (which was offline as of mid-morning Monday), which actually distributed the malicious code.