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Fioravante Souza

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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
  • Joomla Security
  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Throwback Threat Thursday: Joomla GoogleMaps Plugin SEO Spam Injection

  • Fioravante Souza
  • September 5, 2019
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…
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Labs Note
  • Sucuri Labs
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Fake Cloudflare Injection

  • Fioravante Souza
  • August 8, 2018
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.****…
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Phishing
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

Google and Facebook Used in Phishing Campaigns

  • Fioravante Souza
  • July 3, 2018
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…
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Labs Note
  • Sucuri Labs
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Using Google and Facebook to aid on distribution

  • Fioravante Souza
  • December 11, 2017
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…
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  • Security Education

Bank Phishing Incident Analysis

  • Fioravante Souza
  • March 8, 2017
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…
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  • Joomla Security

Backdoor in Fake Joomla! Core Files

  • Fioravante Souza
  • May 20, 2016
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…
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  • Drupal Security

Finding Conditional Drupal Database Spam

  • Fioravante Souza
  • May 9, 2016
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…
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  • Security Education

Analyzing a Facebook Clickbait Worm

  • Fioravante Souza
  • June 30, 2015
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…
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Websites Compromised with CloudFrond Injection

  • Fioravante Souza
  • January 7, 2015
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…
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  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

Malvertising on a Website Without Ads

  • Fioravante Souza
  • December 12, 2014
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…
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Typos Can have a Bigger Impact Than Expected

  • Fioravante Souza
  • November 26, 2014
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.…
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