A Short History of Essay Spam (How We Got from Pills to Plagiarism)
Ben Martin From answering beginner questions like ‘What is SEO spam?’ to breaking down the spammers’ code and exactly how they hide their injections in compromised websites,…
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Adobe Patches Critical Magento Vulnerabilities in Recent Update
Adobe has recently released several critical security patches for both their open source and commercial versions of their ecommerce platform. There are a total of…
Best Practices for Web Form Security
David Zomaya Web form security — the set of tools and practices intended to protect web forms from attacks and abuse — is one of the most…
Examining Unique Magento Backdoors
Liam Smith During a recent investigation into a compromised Magento ecommerce environment, we discovered the presence of five different backdoors that would provide attackers with code execution…
Stylish Magento Card Stealer loads Without Script Tags
Recently one of our analysts, Weston H., found a very interesting credit card stealer in a Magento environment which loads a malicious JavaScript without using…
Vulnerable Plugin Exploited in Spam Redirect Campaign
Some weeks ago a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in old, unpatched versions of the wp-user-avatar plugin. It also allows for arbitrary file…
An Overview of Basic WordPress Hardening
We have discussed in the past how out-of-the-box security configurations tend to not be very secure. This is usually true for all software and WordPress…
Magecart Swiper Uses Unorthodox Concatenation
MageCart is the name given to the roughly one dozen groups of cyber criminals targeting e-commerce websites with the goal of stealing credit card numbers…
Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 2
In my previous post about ecommerce credit card swipers I described the general overview of the online ecommerce environment as well as some of the…
Online Credit Card Theft – A Brief Overview of Online Fraud and Abuse – Part 1
Many clients that we work with host and operate ecommerce websites which are frequent targets of attackers. The goal of these attacks is to steal…
Password Attacks 101
Cesar Anjos According to the 2020 Data Breaches report by Verizon, 25% of all breaches involved the use of stolen credentials. And for small businesses, that number…