Vulnerable Plugin Exploited in Spam Redirect Campaign
Ben Martin Some weeks ago a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in old, unpatched versions of the wp-user-avatar plugin. It also allows for arbitrary file…
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Magecart Swiper Uses Unorthodox Concatenation
MageCart is the name given to the roughly one dozen groups of cyber criminals targeting e-commerce websites with the goal of stealing credit card numbers…
Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 2
In my previous post about ecommerce credit card swipers I described the general overview of the online ecommerce environment as well as some of the…
Malicious Redirects Through Bogus Plugin
Recently we have been seeing a rash of WordPress website compromises with attackers abusing the plugin upload functionality in the wp-admin dashboard to redirect visitors…
Password Attacks 101
Cesar Anjos According to the 2020 Data Breaches report by Verizon, 25% of all breaches involved the use of stolen credentials. And for small businesses, that number…
WordPress Redirect Hack via Test0.com/Default7.com
Denis Sinegubko Malicious redirect is a type of hack where website visitors are automatically redirected to some third-party website: usually it’s some malicious resource, scam site or…
WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Hides in Plain Sight
Recently, a client’s customers were receiving a warning from their anti-virus software when they navigated to the checkout page of the client’s ecommerce website. Antivirus…
Object Injection Vulnerability Affects WordPress Versions 3.7 to 5.7.1
If you haven’t updated your WordPress website since October 2013, this wouldn’t affect you, but we strongly hope that is not the case! There’s a…
What is File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)?
What is file integrity monitoring? File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) is a security measure that checks and compares files against a known baseline to detect any…
WordPress Continues to Fall Victim to Carding Attacks
Unsurprisingly, as WordPress continues to increase in popularity as an e-commerce platform, attackers continue to attempt to steal credit card information from unsuspecting clients. Currently, the WordPress plugin WooCommerce accounts for roughly a quarter of all…
Server Side Data Exfiltration via Telegram API
One of the themes commonly highlighted on this blog includes the many creative methods and techniques attackers employ to steal data from compromised websites. Credit…