Website Security News
Learn about the latest malware campaigns actively infecting websites, including malware removal and protection steps. Stay up to date with the latest infections against websites including CMS platforms like WordPress, Drupal, Magento, and Joomla. Read our posts about the most recent website hacks analyzed by our research and incident response teams.
When attackers shift up their campaigns, change their payload or exfiltration domains, and put some extra effort into hiding their malware it’s usually a telltale sign that they are making some money off of their exploits. One such campaign is the fake CloudFlare DDoS pages…
Read More about New Malware Variants Serve Bogus CloudFlare DDoS Captcha
All software has bugs — but some bugs can lead to serious security vulnerabilities that can impact your website and traffic. Vulnerabilities can be especially dangerous when your software is…
Read More about A Guide to Virtual Patching for Website Vulnerabilities
Magento store owners using the popular FishPig extensions should be wary of a recent supply chain attack which compromised their software repository. FishPig released a detailed security announcement on September…
Read More about Magento Supply Chain Attack Targets Extension Developer FishPig
Bad actors often look for clever ways to boost the rankings and visibility of their spam pages in search. One of the many black hat SEO injections that we regularly…
Read More about Gambling Spam in Visual Composer Raw HTML Element: [vc_raw_html]
When a website is hacked symptoms can sometimes include unexpected, unfamiliar and strangely located favicon or .ico files. Other symptoms might include: ”This site may be hacked” warnings Strange redirects…
Read More about How to Find & Remove Malware in Favicon (.ico) Files
Every once in a while, we get a glimpse into the strange behavior that happens after a site is compromised. Hacked websites are known to result in a plethora of…
Read More about Post-Hack Instructions: SEO Spam & 404 Errors in Search Console
Since 2020 considerable attention has been spent analysing the emergence of MageCart malware within WordPress environments which most commonly affects sites using WooCommerce. As demonstrated in a previous post WordPress…
Read More about Examining Less-Common WordPress Credit Card Skimmers
It’s not uncommon for users to experience “DDoS Protection” pages when casually browsing the web. These DDoS protection pages are typically associated with browser checks performed by WAF/CDN services which…
Read More about Fake DDoS Pages On WordPress Sites Lead to Drive-By-Downloads
Earlier this June, we shared information about the ongoing NDSW/NDSX malware campaign which has been one of the most common website infections detected and cleaned by our remediation team in…
Read More about SocGholish: 5+ Years of Massive Website Infections
One of the quickest ways for an attacker to harvest financial data, credentials, and sensitive personal information is through phishing. These social engineering attacks can typically be found masquerading as…
Read More about DHL Phishing Page Uses Telegram Bot for Exfiltration
WebAssembly (also referred to as Wasm) is a binary instruction format that runs in the browser to enable high-performance applications on web pages and can be executed much faster than…
Read More about Cryptominers & WebAssembly in Website Malware
