The Dangers of Installing Nulled WordPress Themes & Plugins
Nathan Chaddock Nulled WordPress themes and plugins are a controversial topic for many in the web development world — and arguably one of the bigger threats to…
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Bogus URL Shorteners Redirect Thousands of Hacked Sites in AdSense Fraud Campaign
Ben Martin Late last year we reported on a malware campaign targeting thousands of WordPress websites to redirect visitors to bogus Q&A websites. The sites themselves contained…
What is Black Hat SEO?
Rianna MacLeod Your website’s search results and rankings are vital to the success of your online business. Better search visibility equates to more traffic — which results…
Konami Code Backdoor Concealed in Image
Attackers are always looking for new ways to conceal their malware and evade detection, whether it’s through new forms of obfuscation, concatenation, or — in…
Massive Campaign Uses Hacked WordPress Sites as Platform for Black Hat Ad Network
Denis Sinegubko Every so often attackers register a new domain to host their malware. In many cases, these new domains are associated with specific malware campaigns, often…
How To Find & Remove Malware on Weebly Sites
Eli Trevino Weebly is an easy-to-use website builder that allows admins to quickly create and publish responsive blogs and sites. Website builder environments are usually considered to…
Fake jQuery Domain Redirects Site Visitors to Scam Pages
Kayleigh Martin A recent infection has been making its rounds across vulnerable WordPress sites, detected on over 160 websites so far at the time of writing. The…
Backdoor Targets FreePBX Asterisk Management Portal
Krasimir Konov Written in PHP and JavaScript, FreePBX is a web-based open-source GUI that manages Asterisk, a voice over IP and telephony server. This open-source software allows…
How to Fix & Remove the “Click Allow If You Are Not a Robot” Redirect
Attackers are always finding unique ways to avoid detection. Our teams regularly find malware on compromised websites which have been obfuscated to make it more…
Chinese Gambling Spam Targets World Cup Keywords
Since 2018, our team has been tracking an interesting type of website infection where the <title> tag of a hacked website is changed to Chinese…
New Wave of SocGholish cid=27x Injections
On November 15th, Ben Martin reported a new type of WordPress infection resulting in the injection of SocGholish scripts into web pages. The attack loads…