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Rodrigo Escobar

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Rodrigo Escobar is Sucuri's Sr. Malware Research Manager who joined the company in 2012. Rodrigo's main responsibilities include the coordination of malware analysts and research groups, and deployment of effective remediation solutions. His professional experience covers more than eight years in website remediation and malware analysis. When Rodrigo isn't investigating cyber threats and looking for solutions to prevent them, you might find him at the computer, reading assembly and learning new skills. Connect with him on LinkedIn.
WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup — December 2022
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Security
  • WordPress Security

WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup December 2022

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • December 28, 2022
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes…
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WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup October 2022
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • WordPress Security

WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup October 2022

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • October 28, 2022
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes…
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WordPress Vulnerability
  • Security Education
  • Sucuri Labs
  • Vulnerability Disclosure
  • Website Security

Critical Vulnerabilities in 123contactform-for-wordpress WordPress Plugin

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • January 19, 2021
In mass infection scenarios, our Malware Research team often looks for attack vectors to find patterns and other similarities among compromised websites. The identification of…
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  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections

Decoding Complex Malware – Step-by-Step

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • August 15, 2017
When cleaning websites, one of the most complicated parts of our job is ensuring we find all backdoors. Most of the time, attackers inject code…
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  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

WordPress Security – Fake TrafficAnalytics Website Infection

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • February 17, 2017
Several months ago, our research team identified a fake analytics infection, known as RealStatistics. The malicious Javascript injection looks a lot like tracking code for…
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Labs Note
  • Sucuri Labs
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

RealStatistics Goes TrafficAnalytics

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • February 2, 2017
In the last few months, our Incident Response Team detected an interesting malicious code that affected a high number of websites. This malware is a…
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  • WordPress Security

Exploited Script in WordPress Theme Sends Spam

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • December 1, 2016
Update 11/03/2017: If you want to learn how to secure WordPress, you can read all about it in our new guide. As WordPress continues to…
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Labs Note
  • Sucuri Labs

WordPress Theme Mailing Script being exploited in the wild

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • October 31, 2016
A few weeks ago, we posted a lab notes describing a good theme file being exploited by attackers to send mass-mailing SPAM (http://labs.sucuri.net/?note=2016/08/15 0:00). Upon…
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Labs Note
  • Sucuri Labs

Mass Mailing SPAM From a Good File

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • August 15, 2016
We often find code that is developed with good intent but the security aspects of it are not always taken into consideration. During a routine…
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  • Security Education
  • Website Security

Secure Coding: How to Account for Input Sanitization

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • May 16, 2016
On average, a website leverages around 18-20 different plugins in its structure. These plugins enhance the website’s functionality and in some instances extend the applications…
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Labs Note
  • Sucuri Labs

Helpscout Blacklisted by Norton

  • Rodrigo Escobar
  • November 11, 2015
Early this morning we got complaints from our clients mentioning that Norton was flagging Helpscout, a Help Desk System. Some of the pages were triggering…
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