Phishing with Help from Compromised WordPress Sites
Daniel Cid We get thousands of spam and phishing emails daily. We use good spam filters (along with Gmail) and that greatly reduces the noise in our…
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Website Security: A Case of SEO Poisoning
Fernando Barbosa There are so many ways your website can be co-opted by hackers for many different reasons, targeting the value created via your SEO is highly…
Bash – ShellShocker – Attacks Increase in the Wild – Day 1
The Bash ShellShocker vulnerability was first disclosed to the public yesterday. Just a few hours after the initial release, we started to see a few…
Bash Vulnerability – Shell Shock – Thousands of cPanel Sites are High Risk
The team behind the Bash project (the most common shell used on Linux) recently issued a patch for a serious vulnerability that could allow for…
Website Malware – Curious .htaccess Conditional Redirect Case
Fioravante Souza I really enjoy when I see different types of conditional redirects on compromised sites. They are really hard to detect and always lead to interesting…
Conditional Malicious iFrame Targeting WordPress Web Sites
We have an email address, labs@sucuri.net where we receive multiple questions a day about various forms of malware. One of the most common questions happen…
Website Security – Compromised Website Used To Hack Home Routers
What if we told you that a compromised website has the ability to hack your home router? Yesterday we were notified that a popular newspaper…
Microsoft IIS Web Server – CMD Process Contributing to Website Reinfections
We often spend a lot of time talking about application level malware, but from time to time we do like to dabble in the ever…
Slider Revolution Plugin Critical Vulnerability Being Exploited
12.17.2014: See more information on the SoakSoak massive malware outbreak resulting from this vulnerability: RevSlider Vulnerability Leads To Massive WordPress SoakSoak Compromise by Daniel Cid…
Website Malware: Mobile Redirect to BaDoink Porn App Evolving
Peter Gramantik Recently, we wrote about a malware redirect causing compromised sites to redirect their visitors to pornographic content (specifically, the BaDoink app). You can read more…
Website Security Analysis: A “Simple” Piece of Malware
For regular readers of this blog, there is one constant that pops up over and over: Malware gets more complex. When malware researchers, like myself,…