Website Security News
We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot. What was especially frustrating for the website owner was that these spammy links were not being loaded on the website when…
Read More about Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam
Our team recently found a malicious JavaScript injection within the WordPress index.php theme file on a compromised WordPress website which ultimately redirects site visitors to a survey-for-gifts scam website. At…
Read More about Malicious JavaScript Used in WP Site/Home URL Redirects
While we mostly see skimmers on Magento based websites, this does not mean that less-popular ecommerce platforms are safe from infections with similar payment information stealing malware. Our security analyst…
In past posts, we’ve discussed the more popular reasons why hackers target smaller websites. Today, we’ll focus instead on how hackers use compromised websites to spread dangerous malware like Emotet…
Read More about How Websites Are Used to Spread Emotet Malware
Our Remediation team lead Ben Martin recently found a fake Google domain that is pretty convincing to the naked eye. The malicious domain was abusing the URL shortener service is.gd:…
Read More about Another Fake Google Domain: fonts.googlesapi.com
With the end of November comes the height of the holiday shopping season — specifically Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, which typically span the last calendar days of November…
Read More about Black Friday/Cyber Monday Ecommerce Security Threats
A web application firewall (WAF) is a great way to detect and filter incoming malicious requests before they can exploit website vulnerabilities and security flaws. While a WAF helps protect…
There has been a noted increase in the number of sextortion scams during 2019. These scam campaigns are commonly distributed through email, but any method of digital communication can be…
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…
Read More about Throwback Threat Thursday: JCE Vulnerability
There’s no doubt that the ubiquitous “forgot your password?” feature has helped many users who’ve misplaced their password or otherwise forgotten it, however—the tradeoff is that it can result in…
Single sign-on (SSO) allows users to sign into a single account (e.g Google) and access other services like YouTube or Gmail without authenticating with a separate username and password. This…
Read More about Fake SSO Used In Multi-Email Provider Phishing
