How to Find & Fix the WordPress Pharma Hack
Rianna MacLeod Finding bogus content and unexpected links for prescription drugs on your WordPress website can be a frustrating experience. But don’t blame your site: it just…
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Analyzing a WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer
Liam Smith The number of credit card skimmers targeting WooCommerce websites has skyrocketed over the past year, and threat actors have become increasingly creative in the different…
What Should You do if Your WordPress Site was Hacked?
Ashley Sand These days WordPress infections are very common. In 2021, internetlivestats.com counted over 81 million websites hacked. If you’re one of the millions, you need to…
How to Find and Fix a WordPress Pharma Hack
Allison Bondi Did you know that one quarter of all spam emails are accredited to pharmaceutical ads? Pharma hacks go beyond the inbox and spam websites by…
Critical Vulnerabilities in 123contactform-for-wordpress WordPress Plugin
Rodrigo Escobar In mass infection scenarios, our Malware Research team often looks for attack vectors to find patterns and other similarities among compromised websites. The identification of…
Fake WordPress Functions Conceal assert() Backdoor
Douglas Santos A few weeks ago, I was manually inspecting some files on a compromised website. While checking on a specific WooCommerce file, I noticed something interesting.…
Dissecting the WordPress 5.2.3 Update
Marc-Alexandre Montpas Last week, WordPress released version 5.2.3 which was a security and maintenance update, and as such, contained many security fixes. Part of our day to…
Yet another variant of the cPanel user shadow editor malware
Luke Leal We have discovered a new variant of PHP malware used to edit a cPanel users’s shadow file, allowing for bad actors to change passwords for…
web.config Redirect Malware
Krasimir Konov We recently found this malware on a windows hosting server where the web.config file was modified with the following code. The code redirects multiple user…
Backdoor Uses Paste Site to Host Payload
Bruno Zanelato Finding backdoors is one of the biggest challenges of a website security analyst, as backdoors are designed to be hidden in case the malware is found…
Persistent Malicious Redirect Variants
Peter Gramantik It’s always nice to meet an old friend or someone you used to know well. You have news to share and talk about, stories to…