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Ben Martin

About Ben Martin

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 eight years of working with infected websites, writing blog posts, and taking escalated tickets. When Ben isn't slaying malware, you might find him editing audio, producing music, playing video games, or cuddling with his cat. Connect with him on Twitter

WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Uses Telegram Bot to Exfiltrate Stolen Data

June 16, 2022Ben Martin

WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Uses Telegram Bot to Exfiltrate Stolen Data

Our story starts like many others told on this blog: A new client came to us with reported cases of credit card theft on their eCommerce website. The website owner had received complaints from several customers who reported bogus transactions on their cards shortly after…

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June 9, 2022Ben Martin

Smilodon Credit Card Skimming Malware Shifts to WordPress

WordPress’ massive market share has come with an unsurprising side effect: As more and more site admins turn to popular plugins like WooCommerce to turn a profit on their website…

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May 26, 2022Ben Martin

Top Ten Most Cumbersome Website Infections to Remove in 2021

In today’s post we’re going to be going over the top ten most cumbersome website infections to remove, based on the sheer number of files or database entries that they…

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May 10, 2022Ben Martin

Examining Emerging Backdoors

Next up in our “This didn’t quite make it into the 2021 Threat Report, but is still really cool” series: New backdoors! Backdoors are a crucial component of a website…

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April 28, 2022Ben Martin

Hacked Website Threat Report 2021

Our 2021 Website Threat Research Report details our findings and analysis of emerging and ongoing trends and threats in the website security landscape. We’ve put together this analysis to help…

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April 8, 2022Ben Martin

The Case for 2FA by Default for WordPress

Administrator panel compromises are one of the most common attacks that everyday WordPress website admins face. We work with thousands of clients who have encountered attacks on their websites and…

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April 4, 2022Ben Martin

WordPress Overtakes Magento in Credit Card Skimmers

One of the most important monitoring tools in our security platform is our Sucuri SiteCheck scanner. It’s a free tool to scan your website for known malicious content and malware…

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April 1, 2022Ben Martin

WordPress Popunder Malware Redirects to Scam Sites

Over the last year we’ve seen an ongoing malware infection which redirects website visitors to scam sites. So far this year our monitoring has detected over 3,000 websites infected with…

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March 30, 2022Ben Martin

New Wave of AnonymousFox Cron Jobs

Recently our Remediation and Research teams have noticed a new wave of malicious cron jobs associated with the notorious AnonymousFox malware. The cron jobs are purpose-built to reinfect the victim…

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March 25, 2022Ben Martin

The Mystery Admin User

One of our clients recently submitted a malware removal request with a curious problem: A mystery admin user kept getting re-created on their website. Try as they might, nothing they…

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February 22, 2022Ben Martin

How to Fix the specialadves WordPress Redirect Hack

Attackers are regularly exploiting vulnerable plugins to compromise WordPress websites and redirect visitors to spam and scam websites. This has been an ongoing campaign for multiple years. Payload domains are…

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