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.
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…
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…
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…
If you’ve recently discovered that your WordPress site is redirecting other sites or unwanted ads, then your website may have been hacked. The WordPress redirect…
One of the more common infections that we see are site-wide redirects to spam and scam sites, achieved by attackers exploiting newly found vulnerabilities in…
On Sunday, February 13th, Adobe pushed an emergency update to their Magento2 ecommerce software patching a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. It is marked…
The holidays are always a busy time for ecommerce stores. Dealing with an influx of Christmas shoppers, holiday sales and inventory, shipping, and at times,…
Security researchers at Automattic recently reported that the popular WordPress plugin and theme authors AccessPress were compromised and their software replaced with backdoored versions. The…
On January 6th, an important security update was released for the WordPress core addresses four separate vulnerabilities. WordPress website administrators are advised to update their…
With regular news stories about companies being hacked, database breaches, internet-breaking vulnerabilities and online credit card theft, web users are justifiably anxious about making online…