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.
The AnonymousFox hack targets insecure websites and actively exploits them to spread phishing, spam, and other malware. A major nuisance for website owners, it also happens to be one of the more prevalent types of malware seen on client sites in the past two years….
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Our story starts like many others told on this blog: A new client came to us with reported cases of credit card theft on their eCommerce website. The website owner…
Read More about WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Uses Telegram Bot to Exfiltrate Stolen Data
WordPress’ massive market share has come with an unsurprising side effect: As more and more site admins turn to popular plugins like WooCommerce to turn a profit on their website…
Read More about Smilodon Credit Card Skimming Malware Shifts to WordPress
E-commerce websites are valuable targets for attackers. Bad actors often leverage creative techniques to conceal their credit card stealers and gather sensitive credit card information from online storefronts. A recent…
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Recently, Avast’s researchers Pavel Novák and Jan Rubín posted a detailed writeup about the “Parrot TDS” campaign involving more than 16,500 infected websites. Such massive infections don’t go unnoticed by…
Read More about Analysis of the Massive NDSW/NDSX Malware Campaign
In today’s post we’re going to be going over the top ten most cumbersome website infections to remove, based on the sheer number of files or database entries that they…
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Magento’s payment provider gateway offers functionalities for site owners to integrate stores with payment service providers. This handy feature lets a website create and handle transactions based on order details…
Read More about Credit Card Stealer Targets PsiGate Payment Gateway Software
The number of credit card skimmers targeting WooCommerce websites has skyrocketed over the past year, and threat actors have become increasingly creative in the different ways they obfuscate their payloads…
Our lead security analyst Liam Smith recently worked on an infected X-Cart website and found two interesting credit card stealers there — one skimmer located server-side, the other client-side. X-Cart’s…
Our remediation and research teams regularly find malicious redirects on client sites. These infections automatically redirect site visitors to third-party websites with malicious resources, scam pages, or commercial websites with…
Read More about Massive WordPress JavaScript Injection Campaign Redirects to Ads
Next up in our “This didn’t quite make it into the 2021 Threat Report, but is still really cool” series: New backdoors! Backdoors are a crucial component of a website…
