What is Pharma Hack Spam?
Art Martori Have you ever seen a website advertising products that seem unrelated to the apparent purpose of the site? Often, this suspicious content is promising pharmacy…
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Malicious WordPress User Hijacker
Luke Leal Our analyst Liam Smith recently found a malicious file with the name wp-atom2.php on a compromised WordPress site that had been infected with pharma spam.…
Magento Login Stealer in Fake bg_white.png Image
Our Remediation team analyst Ben Martin recently found a malicious injection in a compromised Magento 1.9.x installation that was stealing Magento user login credentials. The…
Website Vulnerability vs. Malware – What’s the Difference?
To better understand the difference between website malware and vulnerabilities, imagine your online property is a brick-and-mortar structure. You’d want to keep safe from burglars,…
How to Find & Remove SEO Spam on WordPress
Perhaps the best way to dive into the subject of finding and removing SEO spam on WordPress is with a quick experiment — probably one…
Is My Site Hacked? (7 Signs)
Rianna MacLeod Editorial: This post was last updated October 26th, 2022. It’s a day every website owner fears. You open the website you’ve poured your time, energy,…
Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam
We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot. What…
What is Ransomware?
Justin Channell Ransomware has been one of the scariest topics in cybersecurity for years – and for good reason. Living up to its name, ransomware is a…
Magento Credit Card Stealer: harilov[.]com
Our Remediation team lead Ben Martin recently discovered a single line obfuscated PHP injection in the main index.php file of a Magento 1.9.x website. It…
Email Scraper: Mass Mail Grabber from Database
One of our Remediation team analysts, Liam Smith, discovered a malicious file on a client’s compromised WordPress website that demonstrates how attackers can use rudimentary…
Fixing “Uncommon Download” Warnings in Google Search Console
Alycia Mitchell Over the past few months, a lot of website owners have received “uncommon download” warnings from Google Search Console. These warnings can be vague, often…