The Dangers of Using Abandoned Plugins & Themes
Krasimir Konov It’s not very often that we see abandoned components being used on a website — but when we do, it’s most often because the website…
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Why You Should Monitor Your Website
Cesar Anjos In an effort to maintain unauthorized access or profit off a website’s environment long after an initial compromise, attackers commonly leverage a variety of different…
Malware Dropper Takes Advantage of COVID-19 Pandemic
Since April, our team has been tracking the spread of a PHP malware dropper. It’s impacting unsuspecting victims who thought they were downloading a mapping…
Fake WordPress Functions Conceal assert() Backdoor
Douglas Santos A few weeks ago, I was manually inspecting some files on a compromised website. While checking on a specific WooCommerce file, I noticed something interesting.…
Obfuscation Techniques in MARIJUANA Shell “Bypass”
Luke Leal Attackers are always trying to come up with new ways to evade detection from the wide range of security controls available for web applications. This…
“Free” Symchanger Malware Tricks Users Into Installing Backdoor
In a previous post, I discussed how attackers can trick website owners into installing malware onto a website — granting the attacker the same unauthorized…
Hackers Love Expired Domains
Sometimes, website owners no longer want to own a domain name and they allow it to expire without attempting to renew it. This happens all…
Hidden SEO Spam Link Injections on WordPress Sites
Often when a website is injected with SEO spam, the owner is completely unaware of the issue until they begin to receive warnings from search…
PrestaShop SuperAdmin Injector and Login Stealer
According to W3Tech’s data, PrestaShop is among the most popular CMS choices for existing ecommerce websites, so it should come as no surprise that malware…
Evasive Maneuvers in Data Stealing Gateways
We have already shared examples of many kinds of malware that rely on an external gateway to receive or return data, such as different malware…
Another Credit Card Stealer That Pretends to Be Sucuri
Denis Sinegubko During a routine investigation, we found yet another web skimmer that pretends to be related to Sucuri. One of our Remediation Analysts, Liam Smith, found…