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In an effort to maintain unauthorized access or profit off a website’s environment long after an initial compromise, attackers commonly leverage a variety of different techniques and tactics. These techniques range from adding backdoors, stealing sensitive data, redirecting the site to other third-party resources, or…
We have already shared examples of many kinds of malware that rely on an external gateway to receive or return data, such as different malware payloads. During a recent investigation,…
We’re constantly seeing news about computers being infected by ransomware, but very little do we hear about it affecting websites. That being said, the impact can be serious if the…
Read More about Analyzing & Decrypting L4NC34’s Simple Ransomware
When we talk about defacements, we’re usually referring to attacks leading to a visual takeover of a website’s page ― consider it a form of vandalism or graffiti. Often distributed…
One of the most common attacks carried out nowadays is related to cracking passwords, but most people probably just know about brute-forcing. There are, in fact, other kinds of attacks…
In our last post in this series, we took a look at a code snippet that had been encoded in a very specific way — and hidden 91 layers deep….
It’s common for malware to be encoded to hide itself—or its true intentions—but have you ever given thought to what lengths attackers will go to hide their malicious code? In…
As we’ve seen many times before, there are a variety of backdoors that can be planted on a website. Post-compromise, it’s almost mandatory to review the list of users with…
It’s no news that webmasters commonly make use of external scripts to add more features to their site, but things can turn out for the worse quite easily. What if…
Read More about Lightbox Adware – From Innocent Scripts to Malicious Redirects
It’s quite common that hosting providers have templates set for pages like 40x and 50x error pages but it’s uncommon for those templates to have ads in them, or even…
Read More about Hosting page templates causing your website ad campaign to be blocked
Attackers commonly rely on backdoors to easily gain reentry and maintain control over a website. They also use PHP functions to further deepen the level of their backdoors. A good…
