Website Security News
Starting this past Friday we have seen a number of websites showing a fake ransomware infection. Google search results for “FOR RESTORE SEND 0.1 BITCOIN” were sitting at 6 last week and increased to 291 at the time of writing this. Upon visiting their website…
Read More about Fake Ransomware Infection Spooks Website Owners
As vital assets for many business operations, websites and their hosting servers are often the target of ransomware attacks — and if they get taken offline, this can cause major…
Read More about Obfuscation Techniques in Ransomweb “Ransomware”
We’re constantly seeing news about computers being infected by ransomware, but very little do we hear about it affecting websites. That being said, the impact can be serious if the…
Read More about Analyzing & Decrypting L4NC34’s Simple Ransomware
Ransomware has been one of the scariest topics in cybersecurity for years – and for good reason. Living up to its name, ransomware is a type of malware where a…
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen an increase in Troldesh ransomware using compromised websites as intermediary malware distributors. The malware often uses a PHP file that acts as a…
Recently we came across a malicious campaign injecting scripts that push fake browser updates onto site visitors. This is what a typical fake update request looks like: Users see a…
Read More about Fake Browser Updates Push Ransomware and Bank Malware
Our Incident Response Team (IRT) has been tracking a mass infection campaign over the last two weeks ( codenamed “Realstatistics“). This campaign has compromised thousands of websites built on the Joomla! and WordPress…
Read More about Realstatistics Malware Campaign Leads To Ransomware
During the last couple of years, website ransomware has become one of the most actively developing types of malware. After infamous fake anti-viruses, this it the second most prominent wave of malware…
Read More about Website Ransomware – CTB-Locker Goes Blockchain
Ransomware is one of the most insidious types of malware that one can come across. These infections will encrypt all files on the target computer as well as any hard…
As the week comes to a close I wanted to take a minute to talk about something we haven’t yet – Ransomware Malware. The idea came from a case this…
If you’re a website developer or server administrator it’s always a good idea to inform your clients about the basics in terms of their website’s security, and the inherent need…
Read More about Top 5 Topics to Discuss with Clients About Website Security
