What is File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)?
Ben Martin 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…
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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
Cesar Anjos 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…
Magento 2 PHP Credit Card Skimmer Saves to JPG
Luke Leal Bad actors often leverage creative techniques to conceal malicious behaviour and harvest sensitive information from ecommerce websites. A recent investigation for a compromised Magento 2…
Whitespace Steganography Conceals Web Shell in PHP Malware
Denis Sinegubko Last November, we wrote about how attackers are using JavaScript injections to load malicious code from legitimate CSS files. At first glance, these injections didn’t…
Phishing & Malspam with Leaf PHPMailer
It’s common knowledge that attackers often use email as a delivery mechanism for their malicious activity — which can range from enticing victims to click…
Real-Time Phishing Kit Targets Brazilian Central Bank
We recently found an interesting phishing kit on a compromised website that has QR code capabilities, along with the ability to control the phishing page…
Obfuscation Techniques in Ransomweb “Ransomware”
As vital assets for many business operations, websites and their hosting servers are often the target of ransomware attacks — and if they get taken…
Evaluating Cookies to Hide Backdoors
Identifying website backdoors is not always an easy task. Since a backdoors primary function is to conceal itself while providing unauthorized access, they are often…
Bogus CSS Injection Leads to Stolen Credit Card Details
A client recently reported their customers were receiving antivirus warnings when trying to access and purchase products from a Magento ecommerce website. This is almost…
SEO Spam Links in Nulled Plugins
Mohit Jawanjal It’s not unusual to see website owners running things on a budget. Choosing a safe and reliable hosting company, buying a nice domain name, boosting…