Auto Generated IFrames To Blackhole Exploit Kit – Following the Cookie Trail
Daniel Cid We often talk about websites being compromised and injected with malware that redirect users to exploit kits. We unfortunately don’t give you a complete picture…
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W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache Vulnerability Being Targeted in the Wild
Tony Perez As if on queue, almost 7 days since we released the post about the latest W3TC and WP Super Cache remote command execution vulnerability, we…
Apache Web Server Attacks Continue to Evolve
For the past few months we have seen a gradual increase in server-level compromises. In fact, every week it seems we’re handling half a dozen…
Apache Binary Backdoors on Cpanel-based servers
For the last few months we have been tracking server level compromises that have been utilizing malicious Apache modules (Darkleech) to inject malware into websites.…
WordPress Malicious Plugin – WPPPM – Abusing 404 Redirects with SEO Poisoning
Bruno Borges, of our security team, came across an interesting case this week, in which a WordPress plugin was abusing the 404 rewrite rules and…
Mass WordPress Brute Force Attacks? – Myth or Reality
We are seeing in the media some noise about a large distributed brute force attacks against all hosts targeting WordPress sites. According to reports, they…
When Good Plugins Go Bad – SEO Spam on Joomla Websites
We recently published an article about an interesting case where a very popular WordPress Plugin (Social Media Widget), with more than 900,000 downloads, got sold…
2012 Web Malware Trends Report Summary
Sucuri is a website security company focused on the detection and remediation of web malware. In 2012, via our SiteCheck scanner, we scanned 9,953,729 unique…
Payday Loan Spam affecting Thousands of Sites
One of the most important metrics used by search engines to rank a site is the number of link backs that it has. The more…
Linux Based SSHD Rootkit Floating The Interwebs
For the past couple of days we have been a lot of discussion on a number of forums about a potential kernel rootkit making its…
cPanel Inc. Server Compromised
It’s unclear on the specifics, but it appears the following letter is going out to cPanel users that have submitted a ticket in the last…