Website Malware Removal: Phishing
Joseph Herbrandson As we continue on our Malware Removal series we turn our attention to the increasing threat of Phishing infections. Just like a fisherman casts and…
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RSS Reveals Malware Injections
Denis Sinegubko There are multiple different ways to detect invisible malware on a website: You can scrutinize the HTML code of web pages. Use external scanners like…
The Art of Website Malware Removal – The Basics
When talking about defense against malicious hacks, the attack vector is a common topic for Information Security (InfoSec) professionals. The primary concern is to understand…
The Dangers of Hosted Scripts – Hacked jQuery Timers
Google blacklisted a client’s website claiming that malicious content was being displayed from “forogozoropoto(dot)2waky (dot)com”. A scan didn’t reveal anything suspicious. The next step was…
Malicious iFrame Injector Found in Adobe Flash File (.SWF)
Peter Gramantik Finding malware in Adobe Flash files (.swf) is nothing new, but it usually affects personal computers, not servers. Typically, a hidden iframe is used to…
Most Common Attacks Affecting Today’s Websites
New web-based attack types and vectors are coming out every day, this is causing businesses, communities and individuals to take security seriously now more than…
Spotting Malicious Injections in Otherwise Benign Code
Being able to spot suspicious code, and then determine whether it is benign or malicious is a very important skill for a security researcher. Every…
Popular Brazilian Site “Porta dos Fundos” Hacked
A very well known Brazilian comedy site, “Porta dos Fundos,” was recently hacked and is pushing malware (drive-by-download) via a malicious Flash executable, as you…
Manipulating WordPress Plugin Functions to Inject Malware
Keir Desailly Most authors of website malware usually rely on the same tricks, making it easy for malware researchers to spot obfuscated code, random files that don’t…
Malvertising Payload Targets Home Routers
Fioravante Souza A few weeks ago we wrote about compromised websites being used to attack your web routers at home by changing DNS settings. In that scenario…
Drupal SQL Injection Attempts in the Wild
Daniel Cid Update (2014/10/29): The Drupal team just released a Public Service Announcement, confirming what we are seeing (mass compromise of Drupal sites). We’ve released a new…