Website Security News
SEO hacks continue to plague websites as attackers abuse SERP rankings for their own gain. The time and effort spent by the website owner creating content, optimizing pages and building links is stolen by an attacker in an instant. For many years, spam injections placed…
Try to remember what you ate for lunch yesterday. It took you about 3-5 seconds, right? Ok. Now recall that memory once more. Took you less than a second this…
Read More about Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools
Authored by Daniel & Tony We are happy to announce that as of today Sucuri will be joining the GoDaddy family. This acquisition will bring the best of both worlds….
Read More about GoDaddy+= Sucuri: Building a Security Platform For Every Website Owner
In a previous post, we illustrated how attackers were fetching information from compromised sites under their control to display spam content on other hacked websites. By adding malicious files into…
Attackers tend to get smarter in order to avoid detection, as well as gain access to your WordPress site. They use legit functions of the WordPress core to create users,…
Read More about Attackers Silently add new user with Administrator role to WordPress sites
Just over a week ago, WordPress released version 4.7.3 to patch multiple security issues. Despite the automatic update feature provided by many hosting companies, there are still many WordPress websites…
Read More about SEO Spam Campaign Exploiting WordPress REST API Vulnerability
During an incident response process, we identified some files located at a website’s root folder. Although they had different filenames (post.php, news.php, home.php, etc), they had the same malicious content:…
As you might remember, we recently blogged about a critical Content Injection Vulnerability in WordPress which allowed attackers to deface vulnerable websites. While our original disclosure only described one vulnerability, we actually reported…
Attackers are constantly developing new techniques to compromise ecommerce websites and steal sensitive data. Over the last several weeks, we tracked massive attacks against Magento sites where attackers are injecting…
Read More about SF9 Realex Magento Module Targeted by Credit Card Scrapers
Backdoors evolve. They tend to get more complex, harder to understand and harder to decode, but this is not always the case. Most of the backdoors rely on PHP-enabled engine…
Everyone has received a phishing scam via email at one point or another. Thanks to modern anti-spam technology, most of these messages are blocked from ever reaching our inboxes. I…
