Spotting a Hidden SEO Hack: “Play One”
Denis Sinegubko 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…
Month: March 2017
16 posts
Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools
Northon Torga 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…
GoDaddy+= Sucuri: Building a Security Platform For Every Website Owner
Tony Perez & Daniel Cid Authored by Daniel & Tony We are happy to announce that as of today Sucuri will be joining the GoDaddy family. This acquisition will bring…
Malicious Subdirectories Strike Again
Fernando Barbosa 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.…
Attackers Silently add new user with Administrator role to WordPress sites
Yuliyan Tsvetkov 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…
SEO Spam Campaign Exploiting WordPress REST API Vulnerability
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…
doc.google.com.TROJAN
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…
Stored XSS in WordPress Core
Marc-Alexandre Montpas 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…
SF9 Realex Magento Module Targeted by Credit Card Scrapers
Bruno Zanelato 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…
Set your Cookie, Execute a Command
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…
Bank Phishing Incident Analysis
Fioravante Souza 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…