2012 Web Malware Trends Report Summary
Daniel Cid 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…
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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
Tony Perez 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…
Website Malware – Fixing Joomla SPAM Hacks – Conditional Payloads
Our Senior Malware Engineer, Fioravante Cavallari, is at it again. I think he has made it his personal mission in life to expel all Joomla…
NBC Website HACKED – Be Careful Surfing
Breaking, the NBC site is currently compromised and blacklisted by Google. Anyone that visits the site (which includes any sub page) will have malicious iframes…
Sneaky Joomla Web Malware – JavaScript Infections
So the past week has been interesting, we have been having fun with a few JavaScript infections that really forced us to put on our…
Large Scale Compromises Leading to Traffic Distribution System
For the last few weeks we’ve been tracking a large scale decentralized Traffic Distribution System (TDS). It’s using hundreds of compromised sites as their first…
Various Shades of Malware – Abusing Your Resources
We often write about very clear cut cases of malware activity. The attacker is leveraging your traffic, redirecting it to other locations, or injecting things…
Malware Redirection with a Delay
You visit a site and it looks good and clean. However, if you keep the page open, after maybe 20-30 seconds, you get redirected to…
Server Compromises – Attackers Covering Their Tracks
When you’re remediating servers, one of the things you’re always looking for are any traces that show the attacker is trying to cover their tracks.…