Néstor Angulo

About Néstor Angulo

Nestor Angulo is Sucuri's Security Analyst who joined the company in 2015. Nestor's main responsibilities include cleaning up hacked sites, generating detailed reports, and giving feedback to the Research team with any new knowledge His professional experience covers more than 15 years in the code development world, where he has been creating technology products with embedded technologies exploiting his entrepreneur genes, and being a university professor in big data and web development. When Nestor isn't slaying malware, you might find him testing new technology gadgets, practicing kickboxing, or traveling around the world as a digital nomad. Connect with Nestor on Twitter or LinkedIn.

July 18, 2019Néstor Angulo

The Strange Case of the Malicious Favicon

During the past year, our Remediation department has seen a large increase in the number of fully spammed sites. The common factors are strangely named and unusually located favicon.ico files, along with the creation of “bak.bak” index files peppered around the website. In the majority…

April 6, 2017Néstor Angulo

Ecommerce Security – Customer Data Breaches Using Images

Since late last year, there has been a steady rise in malware campaigns that aim to steal sensitive personal information and financial credentials. Attackers often insert pieces of malicious code…