Web Malware Trends and the Mac Flashfake / Flashback Outbreak
Tony Perez This has been an interesting couple of weeks in the Anti-Virus world, specifically in the malware business for notebooks and desktops running the MAC OS.…
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Nikjju Mass injection campaign (180k+ pages compromised)
Daniel Cid Our research team have been tracking a new mass SQL injection campaign that started early this month. So far more than 180,000 URLs have been…
GetMama – Conditional malware affecting thousands of sites
We have been tracking an interesting malware that is affecting thousands of compromised sites. We call it GetMama!! Why conditional? Because instead of just displaying…
Sucuri SiteCheck – Web Malware Distribution – March 2012
Apologies for not posting stats for February. We were making some internal changes which delayed the process and skewed the data. Regardless, here are the…
e107 Being Exploited – Vulnerable contact.php Scanned and Attacked
David Dede We are seeing an old vulnerability on e107 being widely scanned and exploited. e107 is a free open source content management system (CMS). More details…
Varying Degrees of Malware Injections Decoded
Rodrigo Escobar It is no longer the day of human-readable injections, or even the use of basic encoding schemes like base64. Instead we’re seeing a rise in…
Website Cross-contamination: Blackhat SEO Spam Malware
Dre Armeda We recently posted about Website Cross-Contamination which we see quite a bit of in shared hosting environments. This post is a follow up with a…
WordPress Third Party Vulnerability – Deans FCKEditor with PWWANGS Code for WordPress(version 1.0.0)
You have heard me write in the past about understanding the true Vulnerability within WordPress. In that post I talk to the benefits of the…
Intelligent (Pharma) Spam Decoded
We are seeing a rise in the use of intelligent SPAM – a.k.a Pharma Hack – across a number of platforms. We recently found a…
Brute force attacks against WordPress sites
We talk a lot about the importance of using strong passwords, but sometimes it it hard to see how important it really is, or what…
Conditional Redirect Malware Decoded – Eval base64_decode Example
I have this beautiful website and now there’s all this garbled code across all of my PHP files. What’s it do, and how did it…