Monthly Archives: July 2011

The Danger of Remote Widgets – Feedcat.net Sold and Now Distributing Malware

Do you like to add all types of “widgets” and cool badges to your site? Be careful which ones do you choose, or your site may get compromised. Be specially careful if the widget vendor sells the technology and doesn’t … Read more


Posted in hacked, malware, malware_updates | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

Top linked sites – What webmasters are linking to

We scan hundreds of thousands of sites daily here at Sucuri and while analyzing some of the data we got interested on what sites are getting the “link love” more often. By link love, I mean what “do follow” links … Read more


Posted in data, stats, sucuri | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Python: No such file or directory – Your site is likely compromised

If you run a WordPress site and you are seeing the following error at the top of your pages: sh:  /usr/local/bin/python: No such file or directory It means that it is likely compromised. How do we know that? We were tracking … Read more


Posted in hacked, pharma, spam, wordpress | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Google blocks .co.cc, attackers are now using .co.tv

It is being reported that Google took action against the high number of malware sites in the .co.cc domain, removing more than 11 million sites from their search results. For us this is good news, since we haven’t been seeing … Read more


Posted in blacklist, blacklisted, malware, malware_updates | Tagged , , | 8 Comments

WordPress 3.2 and PHP support – Security effect

WordPress 3.2 is going to be released very soon and one of the biggest changes is that they will drop support for PHP4 and all versions of PHP5 bellow 5.2.4. WordPress.org has provided some informative posts about their reasons for … Read more


Posted in php, wordpress | Tagged , | 7 Comments