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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.
Vulnerability Details
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Limit Login Attempts Vulnerability – Patch Now!

  • Ben Martin
  • April 12, 2023
On April 11th, 2023, a software update was released to patch a severe vulnerability within the Limit Login Attempts WordPress security plugin. With over 600,000…
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Elementor Pro WordPress Plugin Vulnerability
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

High Severity Vulnerability in WordPress Elementor Pro Patched

  • Ben Martin
  • March 31, 2023
On March 22nd, 2023 a security patch was issued for the popular website builder plugin Elementor Pro. Website administrators using this plugin should immediately patch…
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WordPress Vulnerability
  • Security Advisory
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Critical Vulnerability Discovered in WooCommerce Payments

  • Ben Martin
  • March 23, 2023
On March 22nd, 2023 a critical vulnerability was discovered within the WooCommerce Payments plugin – an extremely popular eCommerce payment plugin for WordPress with over…
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  • Ecommerce Security
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Reveals Tampered Plugin

  • Ben Martin
  • March 21, 2023
Disclaimer: The malware infection described in this article does not affect the software plugin as a whole and does not indicate any vulnerabilities or security…
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Magbo spam injection encoded with hex2bin
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Magbo Spam Injection Encoded with hex2bin

  • Ben Martin
  • March 3, 2023
We recently had a new client come to us with a rather peculiar issue on their WordPress website: They were receiving unwanted popup advertisements but…
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Attackers Abuse Cron Jobs to Reinfect Websites
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Attackers Abuse Cron Jobs to Reinfect Websites

  • Ben Martin
  • February 21, 2023
Malicious cron jobs are nothing new; we’ve seen attackers use them quite frequently to reinfect websites. However, in recent months we’ve noticed a distinctive new…
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Bogus Short URLs Redirect Thousands of Hacked Sites in AdSense Fraud Campaign
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Bogus URL Shorteners Redirect Thousands of Hacked Sites in AdSense Fraud Campaign

  • Ben Martin
  • February 9, 2023
Late last year we reported on a malware campaign targeting thousands of WordPress websites to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A websites. The sites themselves contained…
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Konami Code Backdoor Concealed in front.jpeg Image
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Konami Code Backdoor Concealed in Image

  • Ben Martin
  • February 2, 2023
Attackers are always looking for new ways to conceal their malware and evade detection, whether it’s through new forms of obfuscation, concatenation, or — in…
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New SocGholish Malware Variant Uses Zip Compression & Evasive Techniques
  • Website Malware Infections
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  • WordPress Security

New SocGholish Malware Variant Uses Zip Compression & Evasive Techniques

  • Ben Martin
  • November 15, 2022
Readers of this blog should already be familiar with SocGholish: a widespread, years-long malware campaign aimed at pushing fake browser updates to unsuspecting web users.…
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Massive ois[.]is Black Hat Redirect Malware Campaign Targets WordPress Sites
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Massive ois[.]is Black Hat Redirect Malware Campaign

  • Ben Martin
  • November 8, 2022
Since September 2022, our research team has tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. These malicious redirects…
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Wordfence Evasion Malware Conceals Backdoors
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Wordfence Evasion Malware Conceals Backdoors

  • Ben Martin
  • October 20, 2022
Malware authors, with some notable exceptions, tend to design their malicious code to hide from sight. The techniques they use help their malware stay on…
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