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Fioravante Souza

About Fioravante Souza

Fioravante "Fio" Souza is Sucuri’s Vulnerability Research & Machine Learning Manager who joined the company in 2012. Fio’s main responsibilities include dealing with emerging web threats. His professional experience covers 18 years of information security. When Fio isn’t dealing with web threats, you might find him fermenting everything he can find. Connect with Fio on Twitter or Untappd.

Throwback Threat Thursday: Joomla GoogleMaps Plugin SEO Spam Injection

September 5, 2019Fioravante Souza

Throwback Threat Thursday: Joomla GoogleMaps Plugin SEO Spam Injection

Throwback Threat Thursday is a series of posts where we recall older vulnerabilities that have since been patched by their developers. In the past, these vulnerabilities caused significant impacts to the security of website owners. Some vulnerable sites may be still be found in wild….

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Labs Note

August 8, 2018Fioravante Souza

Fake Cloudflare Injection

Seeing malicious campaigns using domain names that resemble big market players is not news anymore. This time I\’ll talk about the new redirects of cloudflare.pw.**** The domain, registered in 2017,…

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Phishing

July 3, 2018Fioravante Souza

Google and Facebook Used in Phishing Campaigns

We’ve all seen sketchy looking emails or texts with malicious links to click on. There are still people who fall for these more obvious types of scams, however, phishing scam…

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Labs Note

December 11, 2017Fioravante Souza

Using Google and Facebook to aid on distribution

Every now and then I check my spam mail box for interesting malware (yes, I receive a lot of phishing messages and alerts that my payments are overdue), but most…

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March 8, 2017Fioravante Souza

Bank Phishing Incident Analysis

Everyone has received a phishing scam via email at one point or another. Thanks to modern anti-spam technology, most of these messages are blocked from ever reaching our inboxes. I…

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May 20, 2016Fioravante Souza

Backdoor in Fake Joomla! Core Files

We usually write a lot about obfuscation methods on Sucuri Labs and here on the blog.  Sometimes we write about free tools to obfuscate your code that aren’t that free and…

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May 9, 2016Fioravante Souza

Finding Conditional Drupal Database Spam

Nobody likes spam. It’s never fun (unless you’re watching Monty Python). For us it comes with the territory; removing SEO spam has been at the core of what we deal…

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June 30, 2015Fioravante Souza

Analyzing a Facebook Clickbait Worm

Here at Sucuri we suspect everything, especially when your friends start to share content written in another language with clickbait headlines. Malicious Facebook posts are one way that hackers can…

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January 7, 2015Fioravante Souza

Websites Compromised with CloudFrond Injection

If you haven’t already noticed, we spent a good deal of time scraping the bottom of the interweb barrel. It’s dirty work, but someone has to do it. I’m not…

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December 12, 2014Fioravante Souza

Malvertising on a Website Without Ads

When you first configure your website, whether it be WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or any other flavor of the month, it is often in its purest state. Unless ofcourse the server…

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November 26, 2014Fioravante Souza

Typos Can have a Bigger Impact Than Expected

Have you ever thought about the cost of a typo? You know what I mean, a simple misspelling of a word somewhere on your website. Do you think there’s a…

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