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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.
Server Side Data Exfiltration via Telegram API
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Vulnerable Plugin Exploited in Spam Redirect Campaign

  • Ben Martin
  • July 21, 2021
Some weeks ago a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in old, unpatched versions of the wp-user-avatar plugin. It also allows for arbitrary file…
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A Review of Basic WordPress Hardening
  • Security Education
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

An Overview of Basic WordPress Hardening

  • Ben Martin
  • July 14, 2021
We have discussed in the past how out-of-the-box security configurations tend to not be very secure. This is usually true for all software and WordPress…
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Magento Credit Card Stealer Reinfector
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Magento Security
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Magecart Swiper Uses Unorthodox Concatenation

  • Ben Martin
  • July 7, 2021
MageCart is the name given to the roughly one dozen groups of cyber criminals targeting e-commerce websites with the goal of stealing credit card numbers…
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A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Magento Security
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 2

  • Ben Martin
  • June 30, 2021
In my previous post about ecommerce credit card swipers I described the general overview of the online ecommerce environment as well as some of the…
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Online Credit Card Theft - A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 1

  • Ben Martin
  • June 23, 2021
Many clients that we work with host and operate ecommerce websites which are frequent targets of attackers. The goal of these attacks is to steal…
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  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Malicious Redirects Through Bogus Plugin

  • Ben Martin
  • June 17, 2021
Recently we have been seeing a rash of WordPress website compromises with attackers abusing the plugin upload functionality in the wp-admin dashboard to redirect visitors…
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WooCommerce Credit Card Swiper Hides in Plain Sight
  • Ecommerce Security
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Hides in Plain Sight

  • Ben Martin
  • May 28, 2021
Recently, a client’s customers were receiving a warning from their anti-virus software when they navigated to the checkout page of the client’s ecommerce website. Antivirus…
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WordPress Vulnerablity Disclosre
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  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Object Injection Vulnerability Affects WordPress Versions 3.7 to 5.7.1

  • Ben Martin
  • May 17, 2021
If you haven’t updated your WordPress website since October 2013, this wouldn’t affect you, but we strongly hope that is not the case! There’s a…
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Server Side Scans and File Integrity Monitoring
  • Magento Security
  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

What is File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)?

  • Ben Martin
  • May 13, 2021
What is file integrity monitoring? File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a security measure that checks and compares files against a known baseline to detect any…
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WordPress Continues to Fall Victim to Carding Attacks
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  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

WordPress Continues to Fall Victim to Carding Attacks

  • Ben Martin
  • April 14, 2021
Unsurprisingly, as WordPress continues to increase in popularity as an e-commerce platform, attackers continue to attempt to steal credit card information from unsuspecting clients. Currently, the WordPress plugin WooCommerce accounts for roughly a quarter of all…
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Online Credit Card Theft - A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse
  • Magento Security
  • Sucuri Labs
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Bogus CSS Injection Leads to Stolen Credit Card Details

  • Ben Martin
  • January 5, 2021
A client recently reported their customers were receiving antivirus warnings when trying to access and purchase products from a Magento ecommerce website. This is almost…
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