Analyzing Popular Layer 7 Application DDoS Attacks
Daniel Cid Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a major concern for website owners for a while. All types of sites, from small to big,…
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FunWebProducts UserAgent Bloating Traffic
Alycia Mitchell Every once in a while we get a case that makes us dig deep to find answers. We have spoken before about the trouble with…
Ask Sucuri: How Did My WordPress Website Get Hacked? – A Tutorial
With the proliferation of Infrastructure and Platform as a Service providers, it is no surprise that a majority of today’s websites are hosting in the…
Common Website Security Terminology Defined
If you want to keep your website safe, it is important to understand the website security terminology used to describe the causes and effects of…
SweetCAPTCHA Service Used to Distribute Adware
Denis Sinegubko SweetCaptcha is a free CAPTCHA service that offers to match “sweet” images instead of making you recognize distorted digits and characters. It has integrations with…
JetPack and TwentyFifteen Vulnerable to DOM-based XSS
David Dede Any WordPress Plugin or theme that leverages the genericons package is vulnerable to a DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability due to an insecure file included…
Critical Persistent XSS 0day in WordPress
Marc-Alexandre Montpas *Update 2015-04-27*: A patch has been released and made available by the WordPress Core Team in version 4.2.1 – Please update immediately. Yes, you’ve read…
Critical Microsoft IIS Vulnerability Leads to RCE (MS15-034)
Rafael Capovilla Microsoft just disclosed a serious vulnerability (MS15-034) on their Web Server IIS that allows for remote and unauthenticated Denial of Service (DoS) and/or Remote Code Execution…
Website Malware – The SWF iFrame Injector Evolves
Peter Gramantik Last year, we released a post about a malware injector found in an Adobe Flash (.swf) file. In that post, we showed how a SWF…
WordPress Malware Causes Psuedo-Darkleech Infection
Darkleech is a nasty malware infection that infects web servers at the root level. It use malicious Apache modules to insert hidden iframes with certain…
Why Website Reinfections Happen
Val Vesa I joined Sucuri a little over a month ago. My job is actually the Social Media Specialist, but we have this process where regardless of…