Magento Killer
Luke Leal A malicious PHP script, aptly given the name “Magento Killer” by its creator(s), has been found targeting Magento websites. While it doesn’t actually kill the…
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7 Things You Should Monitor in WordPress Activity Logs
Victor Santoyo WordPress activity logs can be helpful when troubleshooting or trying to identify a hack. In this article, you’ll learn about the seven things you should…
Spam That Fits Your Website
Gabriel Barbosa Most of the time when we talk about spam, we think about mindless machines that create posts or comments to advertise a business related to…
WordPress Plugin WP Statistics: Unauthenticated Stored XSS Under Certain Configurations
Antony Garand The WordPress plugin WP Statistics, which has an active installation base of 500k users, has an unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerability on versions prior to 12.6.7.…
How to Know If You Are Under DDoS Attack
Stephen Johnston Nowadays, DDoS is a pretty recognizable term. Though many webmasters don’t know exactly what a DDoS attack is—its method is very subtle to identify—they’re pretty…
Fake Instagram Verification
Across various social media platforms there are verification checkmark symbols that appear near the name of the account’s page we view. For example, this verified…
web.config Redirect Malware
Krasimir Konov We recently found this malware on a windows hosting server where the web.config file was modified with the following code. The code redirects multiple user…
Why is Your Website a Target? The SEO Value of a Website
Douglas Santos Website security is what we eat, sleep, and breathe. It’s what we do best because we deal with hacked websites every single day, thousands of…
Malware vs Virus: What’s the Difference?
There appears to be a general misunderstanding among internet users about the difference between malware and viruses. The two terms are often used interchangeably and…
Cryptomining Dropper and Cronjob Creator
Recently, someone reached out to us about a malicious process they had discovered running on their web server. This process was maxing out the CPU,…
Malware Infection from One Directory Up
Mohit Jawanjal Malicious code can reside anywhere on the site — not just in the web directory of the folder. During a recent incident response, all pages…