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Ben Martin

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Ben Martin is a security analyst and researcher who joined the company in 2013. Ben's main responsibilities include finding new undetected malware, identifying trends in the website security world, and, of course, cleaning websites. His professional experience covers more than a decade of working with infected websites of every variety with a special focus on eCommerce / credit card theft malware. When Ben isn't slaying malware you might find him producing music, gardening, or skateboarding around Victoria.
What Motivates Website Malware Attacks
  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

What Motivates Website Malware Attacks?

  • Ben Martin
  • May 28, 2025
The depiction in the media of hackers tends to be that of balaclava-wearing villains who type furiously in a dark basement, motivated by nothing but…
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Fake GIF Leveraged in Multi-Stage Reverse Proxy Card Skimming Attack
  • Magento Security
  • Security Advisory
  • Website Malware Infections

Fake GIF Leveraged in Multi-Stage Reverse-Proxy Card Skimming Attack

  • Ben Martin
  • April 25, 2025
In today’s post we’re going to review a sophisticated, multi-stage carding attack on a Magento eCommerce website. This malware leveraged a fake gif image file,…
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Fake CloudFlare Verification Results in Lumastealer Trojan Infections
  • Security Advisory
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Fake Cloudflare Verification Results in LummaStealer Trojan Infections

  • Ben Martin
  • March 19, 2025
Today’s blog post will be a follow up to a previous article we posted a few weeks ago: We continue to see new variants of…
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WordPress ClickFix Malware
  • Security Advisory
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

WordPress ClickFix Malware Causes Google Warnings and Infected Computers

  • Ben Martin
  • February 21, 2025
Since December of last year there has been a new fake Google reCAPTCHA campaign making its way through the WordPress world. Very similar to malware…
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2024 Credit Card Theft Season Arrives
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Magento Security
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

2024 Credit Card Theft Season Arrives

  • Ben Martin
  • November 7, 2024
The holiday shopping season is just around the corner, and it’s the time of year the eCommerce website owners need to be most on their…
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Woo Skimmer Uses Style Tags and Image Extension to Steal Card Details
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Woo Skimmer Uses Style Tags and Image Extension to Steal Card Details

  • Ben Martin
  • September 12, 2024
This post starts the same way many others do on this blog, and it will be familiar to those who keep up with website security:…
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WordPress Websites Used to Distribute ClearFake Trojan Malware
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

WordPress Websites Used to Distribute ClearFake Trojan Malware

  • Ben Martin
  • August 22, 2024
Unfortunately, scams are all over the place, and anybody who has surfed the web should know this. We’ve all gotten phishing emails, or redirected to…
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PrestaShop websocket skimmer
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Website Malware Infections

PrestaShop GTAG Websocket Skimmer

  • Ben Martin
  • August 14, 2024
During a recent investigation we uncovered another credit card skimmer leveraging a web socket connection to steal credit card details from an infected PrestaShop website.…
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Wordfence Evasion Malware Conceals Backdoors
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

New Variation of WordFence Evasion Malware

  • Ben Martin
  • July 5, 2024
We recently came across an infected WordPress environment which contained a new variation of WordFence evasion malware using some sneaky tactics to conceal itself from…
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Caesar Cipher Credit Card Skimmer
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Website Malware Infections

Decoding the Caesar Cipher Skimmer

  • Ben Martin
  • June 20, 2024
Over the last several weeks we’ve observed an interesting new variation of “gtag” credit card skimming attack with a surprisingly high number of detections so…
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Server Side CC Skimmer Lodged in Obscure Plugin
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Server Side Credit Card Skimmer Lodged in Obscure Plugin

  • Ben Martin
  • May 22, 2024
Attackers are always finding new ways to inject malware into websites and new ways to obscure it to avoid detection, but they’re always up to…
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