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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.
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  • Website Security
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Critical Vulnerabilities in All in One SEO Plugin Affects Millions of WordPress Websites

  • Ben Martin
  • December 21, 2021
Security Risk: High Exploitation Level: Easy CVSS Score: 9.9 / 7.7 Vulnerability: Privilege Escalation, SQL Injection Patched Version: 4.1.5.3 Last week, security researcher at Automattic…
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  • Security Advisory
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Security

What is the Log4j Vulnerability?

  • Ben Martin
  • December 14, 2021
Editorial: This post was last updated October 17th, 2022. What is the Log4j vulnerability? Originally found on the popular game Minecraft, this critical server security…
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  • Ecommerce Security
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

WooCommerce Credit Card Swiper Injected Into Random Plugin Files

  • Ben Martin
  • December 6, 2021
It’s that time of year again! While website owners always need to be on guard, the holidays season is when online scams and credit card…
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  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

An Overview of Website Reinfection Vectors

  • Ben Martin
  • November 19, 2021
The website security landscape is as complicated as it is treacherous. We often deal with clients who become reinfected over and over again. Once the…
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  • Website Security

Fake Ransomware Infection Spooks Website Owners

  • Ben Martin
  • November 15, 2021
Starting this past Friday we have seen a number of websites showing a fake ransomware infection. Google search results for “FOR RESTORE SEND 0.1 BITCOIN”…
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Online Credit Card Theft - A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

WooCommerce Skimmer Spoofs Checkout Page

  • Ben Martin
  • November 8, 2021
Recently a client of ours was reporting a bogus checkout page appearing on their website. When trying to access their “my-account” page an unfamiliar prompt…
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WordPress Redirect Hack via Test0.com/Default7.com
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Multistage WordPress Redirect Kit

  • Ben Martin
  • September 8, 2021
Recently, one of our analysts @kpetku came across a series of semi-randomised malware injections in multiple WordPress environments. Typical of spam redirect infections, the malware…
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  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Analysis of a Phishing Kit (that targets Chase Bank)

  • Ben Martin
  • September 1, 2021
Most of us are already familiar with phishing: A common type of internet scam where unsuspecting victims are conned into entering their real login credentials…
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  • Website Security

A Short History of Essay Spam (How We Got from Pills to Plagiarism)

  • Ben Martin
  • August 18, 2021
From answering beginner questions like ‘What is SEO spam?’ to breaking down the spammers’ code and exactly how they hide their injections in compromised websites,…
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Vulnerability in Magento
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  • Security Advisory
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Security

Adobe Patches Critical Magento Vulnerabilities in Recent Update

  • Ben Martin
  • August 13, 2021
Adobe has recently released several critical security patches for both their open source and commercial versions of their ecommerce platform. There are a total of…
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Stylish Magento Card Stealer loads Without Script Tags
  • Magento Security
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Stylish Magento Card Stealer loads Without Script Tags

  • Ben Martin
  • July 28, 2021
Recently one of our analysts, Weston H., found a very interesting credit card stealer in a Magento environment which loads a malicious JavaScript without using…
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