Bogus Mobile-Shortcuts WordPress Plugin Injects SEO Spam
Ben Martin Here at Sucuri we see countless cases of SEO spam where a website is compromised in order to spread pharmaceutical advertisements or backlinks to sites…
Month: January 2015
10 posts
Critical “GHOST” Vulnerability Released
Marc-Alexandre Montpas A very critical vulnerability affecting the GNU C Library (glibc) is threatening Linux servers for a remote command execution. This security bug was discovered by Qualys security…
DDoS from China – Facebook, WordPress and Twitter Users Receiving Sucuri Error Pages
Daniel Cid Over the past few weeks our Security Operation Center (SOC) has been seeing some unique and very suspicious requests to some of our servers. At…
Security Advisory – Vulnerabilities in Pagelines for WordPress
Users of both the Pagelines and Platform themes should update as soon as possible. During a routine audit for our WAF, we found two dangerous issues: A…
AdSense Abused with Malvertising Campaign
Denis Sinegubko Last weekend we noticed a large number of requests to scan websites for malware because they randomly redirected to some “magazine” websites. Most of them…
vBSEO’s Vulnerability Leads to Remote Code Execution
We were notified last week that the vBulletin team sent an email to all their clients about a potential security vulnerability in vBSEO. After further…
Serious Vulnerability in VBSEO
The vBulletin team sent an email yesterday to all their clients about a potential security vulnerability in VBSEO. VBSEO is a widely used SEO module…
Websites Compromised with CloudFrond Injection
Fioravante Souza If you haven’t already noticed, we spent a good deal of time scraping the bottom of the interweb barrel. It’s dirty work, but someone has…
Website Backdoors Leverage the Pastebin Service
We continue our series of posts about hacker attacks that exploit a vulnerability in older versions of the popular RevSlider plugin. In this post we’ll…
2014 Website Defacements
When a website has been defaced, it is often the most visual and obvious hack that a website can suffer from. They also come parceled…