Website Security News
Learn about the latest website security news from our research and incident response teams. Find out about emerging website malware campaigns and the best steps to protect your site from hackers. To learn more check out the series of website security guides created by our team.
Welcome to the final post to conclude our series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show how PCI DSS affects anyone going through the compliance process using the PCI SAQ’s (Self Assessment Questionnaires). In the previous articles written…
Read More about PCI for SMB: Requirement 12 – Maintain an Information Security Policy
Earlier this year, we noticed an increase in attacks aiming at ThinkPHP, which is a PHP framework that is very popular in Asia. If you keep track of your site’s…
In the past couple of years, we’ve been tracking a long-lasting campaign responsible for injecting malicious scripts into WordPress sites. This campaign leverages old vulnerabilities (patched a long time ago)…
Read More about From .tk Redirects to PushKa Browser Notification Scam
The WordPress plugin repository team may “close” plugins and restrict downloads when they become aware of a security issue that the developer cannot fix quickly. However, bad actors are actively…
Have you ever stopped to think about how many resources a search engine has or if your website could handle the same amount of search traffic that Google does? Search…
We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign (e.g redirected traffic, cryptomining). This…
Read More about Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja
Disclaimer: This is an April Fool’s Day blog post and not all the information below is accurate. If you are looking for updated information on CMSs and malware families, access…
Read More about April Fool’s Day – TYPO3 Overtakes WordPress as Most Attacked CMS Due to Popularity
As more people are creating websites and becoming aware of website security, companies are popping up everywhere to help with the problem. And just like website security plugins, not all…
After recent publication of the Uncommon Radixes Used in Malware Obfuscation article, we found an interesting Twitter thread involving @EKFiddle and @Ledtech3 #EKFiddle [Regex update]: Added Radix Web Skimmer identified…
Read More about More on Dnsden[.]biz Swipers and Radix Obfuscation
The WP-Fastest-Cache plugin authors released a new update, version 0.8.9.1, fixing a vulnerability (CVE-2019-6726) present during its install alongside the WP-PostRatings plugin. According to seclists.org: “A successful attack allows an…
Read More about Arbitrary Directory Deletion in WP-Fastest-Cache
Some JavaScript features allow for pretty interesting obfuscation techniques. For example, did you know that virtually any English word can be used as a valid number? I recently decoded a…
Read More about Uncommon Radixes Used in Malware Obfuscation
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