Brazilian government site hacked
David Dede Today our honeypot detected one more .gov site hacked (among the thousands we see daily). This time from the Brazilian government. The site in question…
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Malware hiding from Google
Google is getting pretty good at detecting web-based malware and blacklisting the sites that are hosting it. This means bad business for the attackers (or…
Ghana Judicial Service site hacked
Yesterday we started to see RFI attacks against our honeypots using files hosted from http://www.judicial.gov.gh (Ghana’s official Judicial Service site). These are some of the…
ForTransRis hosting malware and attacking our honeypots
ForTransRIS Project is a Coordination Action funded by the European Commission under the OMC-NET (Open Method of Coordination-NET) strategy of the Sixth Framework Programme for…
Lots of Italian sites getting hacked – Initial analysis
On the last few days we are seeing a large number of reports from Italian sites getting hacked. Way more than the average and way…
APT – Attempting to steal your domain
We all hear of APT (advanced persistent threat) and this is a good example of one trying to steal the vl.com domain. Very good read:…
Perl.com hacked – Security archive case study
Security Archive: Remembering security incidents to make sure we don’t commit the same mistakes over and over again. Want to read more stories like this…
Google’s Webpage removal request tool
Do you need to remove sensitive information from Google? Found a dead link in our search results? Want to help us improve our SafeSearch filter?…
Today is not a good day to be blacklisted
Today is definitely not a good day to be blacklisted as Google seems to be “busy”. We have been trying to help some clients to…
Removing malware from a web site – Case Study
We deal with web-based malware every day here at Sucuri. Some are encrypted and very hard to detect and remove, but most of them are…
Good bye securityfocus
I just read the sad announcement that SecurityFocus is going to be shut down (or phased out to sound more nice). The mailing lists will…