MailPoet Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild – Breaking Thousands of WordPress Sites
Daniel Cid A few weeks ago we found and disclosed a serious vulnerability on the MailPoet WordPress Plugin. We urged everyone to upgrade their sites immediately due…
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Massive Malware Infection Breaking WordPress Sites
Peter Gramantik Update: We identified the root cause: MailPoet Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild – Breaking Thousands of WordPress Sites. The last few days has brought about…
Website Malware – Mobile Redirect to BaDoink Porn App
A few weeks ago we reported that we were seeing a huge increase in the number of websites compromised with a hidden redirection to pornographic…
Case Study: Complexities of “Simple” Malware
You know when you pull a string on a sweater and it just keeps going and going? You wonder when or if it will ever…
Is My Website Hacked? If You Have to Ask, Then, “Yes.”
David Dede The problem with phishing, and therefore the reason so many people have trouble with it, is that the code is fairly benign and can be…
Phishing Tale: An Analysis of an Email Phishing Scam
Fioravante Souza Phishing scams are always bad news, and in light of the Google Drive scam that made the rounds again last week, we thought we’d tell…
Analyzing a Malicious iFrame – Following the Eval Trail
Over the last week, we’ve been working with some interesting malware injections. Developers and malware prevention professionals usually think of hidden iframes that deliver spam-seo…
BaDoink Website Redirect – Malicious Redirections to Porn Websites on Mobile Devices
The past week has brought about a large number of cases where compromised websites had hidden redirections to porn injected into their code. All the…
Case Study: Analyzing the Origins of a DDoS Attack
Recently a client was experiencing a massive layer 7 DDOS attack, generating tens of thousands of random HTTP requests per second to the server. The…
Does Sucuri Work With My Host? Yes, Yes We Do.
We’ve been scanning and removing malware from websites for years and in this time frame we have seen the website security domain grow by leaps…
Ad Violations: Why Search Engines Won’t Display Your Site If it’s Infected With Malware
As your website’s webmaster have you ever seen an e-mail from Google like this?: Hello, We wanted to alert you that one of your sites…