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Credit card stealing malware is becoming more and more customized. We’ve been regularly seeing injected scripts with URLs that either mimic or include a portion of the victim’s site domain. Sometimes the injected code also references the victim’s site. Recently, we’ve come across another level…
Read More about Localization and Customization of Credit Card Stealing Malware
Last Friday, we reported on a hack that used a vulnerability in the popular WP GDPR Compliance plugin to change WordPress siteurl settings to erealitatea[.]net. At that time it was…
Read More about Hackers Change WordPress Siteurl to Pastebin
Earlier this week, we published a blog post about an ongoing massive malware campaign describing multiple infection vectors that it uses. This same week, we started detecting new modifications of…
Last month, we shared information about yet another series of ongoing massive infections using multiple different vectors to inject malicious scripts into WordPress websites. Shortly after, the campaign changed the…
Read More about Multiple Ways to Inject the Same Tech Support Scam Malware
We have recently been notified of phishing emails that target WordPress users. The content informs site owners that their database requires an update and looks like this: The email’s appearance…
Read More about WordPress Database Upgrade Phishing Campaign
This August, we’ve seen a new massive wave of WordPress infections that redirect visitors to unwanted sites. When redirected, users see annoying pages with random utroro[.]com addresses and fake reCAPTCHA…
Since July, we’ve been observing a massive WordPress infection that is responsible for unwanted redirects to scam and ad sites. This infection involves the tiny.cc URL shortener, a fake plugin…
Read More about Fake Plugins with Popuplink.js Redirect to Scam Sites
Recently, we came across another way to use files from GitHub repositories in malware infections. This time the infections weren’t via GitHub.io, raw.githubusercontent.com, or github.com/<user>/<repository>/raw/ URLs. The new trick involved…
Read More about RawGit CDN is Abused by CryptoLoot Cryptominers
If you have been following our blog for a long time, you might remember us writing about malware that used EXIF data to hide its code. This technique is still…
Read More about Hiding Malware Inside Images on GoogleUserContent
We are all familiar with the conventional domain name notation, where different levels are concatenated with the full stop character (period). E.g. “www.example.com”, where “www” is a subdomain, “example” is…
Read More about CoinImp Cryptominer and Fully Qualified Domain Names
After a series of critical Drupal vulnerabilities disclosed this spring, it’s not surprising to see a surge of massive Drupal infections like this one: Massive #Drupal infection that redirects to…
