WP-VCD Malware Comes with Nulled Themes
Denis Sinegubko Recently we wrote about wp-vcd malware that created rogue WordPress admin users (100010010) and injected spam links. Our readers noticed that the “nulled” premium theme…
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Backdoor using paste site to host payload
Bruno Zanelato Over the last months, we’ve been talking a lot about new ways to decode complex malwares that involve the usual PHP functions like eval, create_function,…
IPv6 address in malicious Javascript redirect
Luke Leal We recently came across a file that shows an interesting case with a Javascript malicious code injection in a website’s custom script file, though it’s…
Fake jQuery and Google Analytics Hide Yet Another Cryptominer
This is a quick posts about yet another quite massive attack that installs CoinHive JavaScript Monero miners on compromised websites. You might have already read…
New wave of wp-vcd Malware
Krasimir Konov Recently we saw a new wave of a known malware that injects malicious WordPress admin users to vulnerable or compromised sites.The malware, well analysed by…
Cryptominers on Hacked Sites – Part 2
Last month we wrote about how the emergence of website cryptocurrency miners resulted in hackers abusing the technology by injecting the CoinHive miners into compromised…
Attackers leveraging WP Maintenance plugin to deface websites
Recently, during a website investigation, we detected that attackers have been modifying the database structure of WP Maintenance plugin (which is a very popular wordpress…
Malware Serving SEO Spam from External Sites
We handle an enormous number of SEO spam infections here at Sucuri. In Q3 of 2016, approximately 37% of all website infection cases were related…
Books SEO Spam
Fernando Barbosa We already discussed in our blog some cases where the attacker uploaded a full ready-to-use website in order to promote their products and services. This…
Mayhem Malware Server Botnet Continues to Evolve
Jose Martinez Three years ago, researchers at Yandex discovered a complex server infection, dubbed Mayhem, that embeds itself deep within a system by compiling a shared object…
Simple self updating hacktool
Pedro Peixoto While working on a compromised website, it’s very common to encounter hacktools. Those are like the attackers’ swiss knife, allowing them to perform several tasks…