Monthly Archives: March 2010

Ecuador Government site hacked and spreading malware

Colombia, Venezuela and now Ecuador. How far are we from reporting the whole South America? The web site from the ‘Municipio del Cantón Mejía’ in Ecuador has been hosting malware and also attacking our honeypots for a while. As always, … Read more


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Apache.org defaced – Security archive case study

Security Archive: Remembering security incidents to make sure we don’t commit the same mistakes over and over again. Want to read more stories like this one? Follow @sucuri_security on twitter or subscribe to our RSS feed. Interested in a web … Read more


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The Importance of logging for web applications – Security talk

If you think that your logs are only useful when something crashes or when you need to troubleshoot errors on your web application, think again! At our Sucuri Labs, we have multiple online tools and we have good logging on … Read more


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Venezuela Government site hacked and spreading malware

Since we have been noticing that full-disclosure works, we will continue with that. We have detected in our honeypots that since January the site www.miranda.gov.ve (from the Venezuela state of Miranda) has been hosting malware and their IP also scanning … Read more


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Honeypot analysis – Full disclosure works

When all else fails, *full disclosure (the process) seems to work. Early in January, we sent a bunch of emails to the people at the Georgia Government, after we detected that they were hosting malware. We asked for contacts on … Read more


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