Highly Effective Joomla Backdoor with Small Profile
Fioravante Souza 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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Not Just Pills or Payday Loans, It’s Essay SEO SPAM!
Estevao Avillez Remember back in school or college when you had to write pages and pages of long essays, but had no time to write them? Or…
Joomla JomSocial Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Daniel Cid The JomSocial team just released an update that fixes a very serious remote code execution vulnerability that affects any JomSocial version older than 3.1.0.4. From…
Website Mesh Networks Distributing Malware
Can you imagine having the keys to a kingdom? How awesome would that be!! This is true in all domains, especialy when it comes to…
The Hidden Backdoors to the City of Cron
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…
Joomla – Fancy SPAM Injections
Malware writers can be really ingenious when it comes to obfuscating their code. And let’s face it, in today’s anti-malware push, they have to; the…
Big Increase in Distributed Brute Force Attacks Against Joomla Websites
Update: Brute force protection now available: http://cloudproxy.sucuri.net/brute-force-protection A few months ago, we discussed and published details about a very large brute force attack targeting WordPress…
Joomla Media Manager Attacks in the Wild
If you are using Joomla and didn’t update your site recently, you better stop doing whatever you are doing, and update it now. There is…
Joomla Hacks – Part I – Phishing
Tony Perez Joomla is a very popular open source CMS, dominating approximately 10% of the website market. While great for them, horrible for many others, as being…
New WordPress and Joomla Updates Available
David Dede If you are a WordPress or Joomla user, you better start updating your sites now. Joomla 2.5.14 Joomla 2.5.14 was released containing some critical security…
Joomla Version 2.5.10 Released – Security Updates
This morning the Joomla development team released a new version of the Joomla platform. This is a Security release, so please be sure to update…