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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.

Malvertising Payload Targets Home Routers

  • Fioravante Souza
  • October 21, 2014
A few weeks ago we wrote about compromised websites being used to attack your web routers at home by changing DNS settings. In that scenario…
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Website Malware – Curious .htaccess Conditional Redirect Case

  • Fioravante Souza
  • September 23, 2014
I really enjoy when I see different types of conditional redirects on compromised sites. They are really hard to detect and always lead to interesting…
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Conditional Malicious iFrame Targeting WordPress Web Sites

  • Fioravante Souza
  • September 19, 2014
We have an email address, labs@sucuri.net where we receive multiple questions a day about various forms of malware. One of the most common questions happen…
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Website Security – Compromised Website Used To Hack Home Routers

  • Fioravante Souza
  • September 11, 2014
What if we told you that a compromised website has the ability to hack your home router? Yesterday we were notified that a popular newspaper…
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Microsoft IIS Web Server – CMD Process Contributing to Website Reinfections

  • Fioravante Souza
  • September 9, 2014
We often spend a lot of time talking about application level malware, but from time to time we do like to dabble in the ever…
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Phishing Tale: An Analysis of an Email Phishing Scam

  • Fioravante Souza
  • June 3, 2014
Phishing scams are always bad news, and in light of the Google Drive scam that made the rounds again last week, we thought we’d tell…
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Analyzing a Malicious iFrame – Following the Eval Trail

  • Fioravante Souza
  • May 27, 2014
Over the last week, we’ve been working with some interesting malware injections. Developers and malware prevention professionals usually think of hidden iframes that deliver spam-seo…
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Highly Effective Joomla Backdoor with Small Profile

  • Fioravante Souza
  • February 27, 2014
It feels like every day we’re finding gems, or what appear to be gems to us. We try to balance the use of the term,…
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Malicious iFrame Injections Host Payload on Tumblr

  • Fioravante Souza
  • February 19, 2014
It’s always fun to watch malware developers using different techniques to code their creations. Sometimes it’s a matter of obfuscation, placement, injection, but this time…
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The Hidden Backdoors to the City of Cron

  • Fioravante Souza
  • January 16, 2014
An attacker’s key to creating a profitable malware campaign is persistence. Malicious code that is easily detected and removed will not generate enough value for…
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Joomla password stealer

  • Fioravante Souza
  • November 21, 2013
As we know, one of the main payloads of a successful attack is to maintain access to the compromised server for as long as possible.…
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