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Last week, we described how an ongoing massive malware campaign began using Baidu search result links to redirect people to various ad and scam pages. It didn’t last long. Soon after the publication of that article, the bad actors changed the links to use compromised…
The malware attack that began as an installation of malicious Injectbody/Injectscr WordPress plugins back in February has evolved since then. Some of the changes were documented as updates at the bottom…
Update – March 28th, 2018: The fake Flash update files referenced in this post have been moved from GitHub to port.so[.]tl, and the bit.wo[.]tc script to byte.wo[.]tc. A few days…
Read More about GitHub Hosts Infostealers Part 2: Cryptominers and Credit Card Stealers
A few months ago, we reported on how cybercriminals were using GitHub to load a variety of cryptominers on hacked websites. We have now discovered that this same approach is…
Since December, we’ve seen a number of websites with this funny looking obfuscated script injected at the very top of the HTML code (before the <html> tag). This code is…
On February 8th, 2018, we noticed a new wave of WordPress infections involving two malicious plugins: injectbody and injectscr. These plugins inject obfuscated scripts, creating unwanted pop-up/pop-unders. Whenever a visitor…
Read More about Unwanted Pop-ups Caused by Injectbody/Injectscr Plugins
A few months ago, we covered two injections related to the “cloudflare.solutions” malware: a CoinHive cryptominer hidden within fake Google Analytics and jQuery, and the WordPress keylogger from Cloudflare[.]solutions. This…
Read More about Cloudflare[.]solutions Keylogger Returns on New Domains
Recently we wrote about how GitHub/GitHub.io was used in attacks that injected cryptocurrency miners into compromised websites. Around the same time, we noticed another attack that also used GitHub for…
Read More about Malicious Website Cryptominers from GitHub. Part 2.
Recently, a webmaster contacted us when his AVG antivirus reported that the JS:Miner-C [Trj] infection was found on their site. Our investigation revealed a hidden iframe had been injected into…
Update Dec. 8 2017: The cloudflare[.]solutions domain has now been taken down. A few weeks ago, we wrote about a massive WordPress infection that injected an obfuscated script pretending to be…
Read More about Cloudflare[.]Solutions Keylogger on Thousands of Infected WordPress Sites
Last month we wrote about how the emergence of website cryptocurrency miners resulted in hackers abusing the technology by injecting the CoinHive miners into compromised sites without the consent of…
