When Good Plugins Go Bad – SEO Spam on Joomla Websites
Daniel Cid We recently published an article about an interesting case where a very popular WordPress Plugin (Social Media Widget), with more than 900,000 downloads, got sold…
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Website Malware – Fixing Joomla SPAM Hacks – Conditional Payloads
Tony Perez Our Senior Malware Engineer, Fioravante Cavallari, is at it again. I think he has made it his personal mission in life to expel all Joomla…
Sneaky Joomla Web Malware – JavaScript Infections
So the past week has been interesting, we have been having fun with a few JavaScript infections that really forced us to put on our…
Website Malware – Sharp Increase in SPAM Attacks – WordPress & Joomla
This past week we have seen a sharp increase in the use of old tactics designed to poison your search engine results – also known…
Website Malware – Joomla SEP Attack – Pharma Injection
This was a fun, yet painful case. In the past we have written a few different posts targeting search engine poisoning attacks (SEP) that like…
Joomla 2.5.8 and 3.0.2 Released (Security Updates)
David Dede Joomla 2.5.8 and 3.0.2 were just released today fixing a medium severity security bug related to a clickjacking/XSS vulnerability. You can find more details on…
Joomla Pharma Hack – Web Malware Removal
Fioravante Souza Nov 2016 Update: If your Joomla website has been hacked, you can follow our new guide to remove malware from Joomla site and protect your…
Joomla 2.5.7 Released (Security Update)
Joomla 2.5.7 was just released today fixing 2 low severity security bugs and added a few other improvements. As always, we recommend all our Joomla…
Joomla 2.5.5 released (security update)
Joomla 2.5.5 was just released today, with a few bugs fixed and 2 important security updates for a privilege escalation and an information disclosure issue:…
Joomla updates (1.5.26 and 2.5.4)
If you are using Joomla, now is a good time to check if your sites are updated. Some (high severity) vulnerabilities were fixed in the…
Joomla 1.5.25/1.7.3 Released (Security Update)
If you are using Joomla, now is the time to update it. A new version was just released for the 1.5.x and 1.7.x branches fixing…