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Ben Martin

About Ben Martin

Ben is a Remediation Team Lead at Sucuri. He's passionate about online security and privacy issues. He is also a music production geek and cat enthusiast.

Fear Uncertainty Doubt - Sucuri Blog

November 26, 2018Ben Martin

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

There’s a term for the practice of scaring potential customers into purchasing products or services they don’t need: FUD; fear, uncertainty, and doubt. This practice is widespread in the computer/IT industries at large, but is especially present in the security industry. People don’t want to…

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December 21, 2017Ben Martin

Reverse Javascript Injection Redirects to Support Scam on WordPress

Over the last few weeks, we’ve noticed a JavaScript injection in a number of WordPress databases, and we recently wrote about them in a Sucuri Labs Note. The campaign attempts…

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October 17, 2016Ben Martin

Magento Credit Card Swiper Exports to Image

Over the past year we have seen a rash of credit card swipers in Magento and other ecommerce-based websites. In fact, we have been finding new variants nearly every week….

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January 12, 2016Ben Martin

Ransomware Strikes Websites

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…

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November 24, 2015Ben Martin

Unwanted Software and Harmful Programs

We frequently clean blacklisted websites and submit reconsideration requests to have them de-listed. We have encountered many kinds of blacklist warnings including search engines, anti-virus programs, firewalls and and e-mail spam….

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September 10, 2015Ben Martin

Ask Sucuri: How to Create Website Backups?

Recently I had the good fortune of being able to present at Wordcamp Vancouver 2015. My presentation was titled ‘Why Security Matters‘ and I mentioned website backups several times. One…

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January 30, 2015Ben Martin

Bogus Mobile-Shortcuts WordPress Plugin Injects SEO Spam

Here at Sucuri we see countless cases of SEO spam where a website is compromised in order to spread pharmaceutical advertisements or backlinks to sites selling luxury goods. Most of…

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January 1, 2015Ben Martin

2014 Website Defacements

When a website has been defaced, it is often the most visual and obvious hack that a website can suffer from. They also come parceled with their own exquisite sense…

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