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Luke Leal

About Luke Leal

Luke Leal is a member of the Malware Research team and joined the company in 2015. Luke's main responsibilities include threat research and malware analysis, which is used to improve our tools. His professional experience covers over eight years of deobfuscating malware code and using unique data from it to help in correlating patterns. When he’s not researching infosec issues or working on websites, you might find Luke traveling and learning about new things. Connect with him on Twitter.

Instagram Verification & Twitter Badge Phishing

August 9, 2022Luke Leal

Fake Instagram Verification & Twitter Badge Phishing

Social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter offer verification badges as a credibility indicator to help show authenticity and integrity to visitors. To obtain a badge, profiles must meet a list of various requirements and undergo verification process. For example, the one found on our…

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Tips for WP-CONFIG to avoid sensitive data exposure

June 21, 2022Luke Leal

How to Harden WordPress With WP-Config (and Avoid Data Exposure)

What is WP-Config? The wp-config file is a powerful core WordPress file that is vital for running your website. It contains important configuration settings for WordPress, including details on where…

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Credit Card Stealer Targets PSiGate Payment Gateway Software

May 24, 2022Luke Leal

Credit Card Stealer Targets PsiGate Payment Gateway Software

Magento’s payment provider gateway offers functionalities for site owners to integrate stores with payment service providers. This handy feature lets a website create and handle transactions based on order details…

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Magento 2 PHP Skimmer Saves To Image File

March 10, 2021Luke Leal

Magento 2 PHP Credit Card Skimmer Saves to JPG

Bad actors often leverage creative techniques to conceal malicious behaviour and harvest sensitive information from ecommerce websites. A recent investigation for a compromised Magento 2 website revealed a malicious injection…

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Trojan Spyware and BEC Attacks

March 3, 2021Luke Leal

Trojan Spyware and BEC Attacks

When it comes to an organization’s security, business email compromise (BEC) attacks are a big problem. One primary reason impacts are so significant is that attacks often use a human…

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Backdoor SQL Trigger

February 25, 2021Luke Leal

SQL Triggers in Website Backdoors

Over the past year, there’s been an increasing trend of WordPress malware using SQL triggers to hide malicious SQL queries within compromised databases. These queries inject an admin level user…

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Phishing Campaign

January 26, 2021Luke Leal

Phishing & Malspam with Leaf PHPMailer

It’s common knowledge that attackers often use email as a delivery mechanism for their malicious activity — which can range from enticing victims to click a phishing URL or download…

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Labs Note

January 21, 2021Luke Leal

Magento PHP Injection Loads JavaScript Skimmer

A Magento website owner was concerned about malware and reached out to our team for assistance. Upon investigation, we found the website contained a PHP injection in one of the…

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Phishing Campaign

January 14, 2021Luke Leal

Real-Time Phishing Kit Targets Brazilian Central Bank

We recently found an interesting phishing kit on a compromised website that has QR code capabilities, along with the ability to control the phishing page in real time. What our…

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Troldesh Ransomware Dropper

January 12, 2021Luke Leal

Obfuscation Techniques in Ransomweb “Ransomware”

As vital assets for many business operations, websites and their hosting servers are often the target of ransomware attacks — and if they get taken offline, this can cause major…

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January 7, 2021Luke Leal

Evaluating Cookies to Hide Backdoors

Identifying website backdoors is not always an easy task. Since a backdoors primary function is to conceal itself while providing unauthorized access, they are often developed using a variety of…

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