WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Hides in Plain Sight
Ben Martin Recently, a client’s customers were receiving a warning from their anti-virus software when they navigated to the checkout page of the client’s ecommerce website. Antivirus…
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Object Injection Vulnerability Affects WordPress Versions 3.7 to 5.7.1
If you haven’t updated your WordPress website since October 2013, this wouldn’t affect you, but we strongly hope that is not the case! There’s a…
WPScan Intro: How to Scan for WordPress Vulnerabilities
Alycia Mitchell In this post, we look at how to use WPScan. The tool provides you a better understanding of your WordPress website and its vulnerabilities. Be…
WPScan Intro: How to Install the WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
What does your WordPress site look like to hackers? Would it be tough to crack? Or does it have unlocked doors and unlatched windows just waiting for someone…
WordPress Continues to Fall Victim to Carding Attacks
Unsurprisingly, as WordPress continues to increase in popularity as an e-commerce platform, attackers continue to attempt to steal credit card information from unsuspecting clients. Currently, the WordPress plugin WooCommerce accounts for roughly a quarter of all…
Server Side Data Exfiltration via Telegram API
Cesar Anjos One of the themes commonly highlighted on this blog includes the many creative methods and techniques attackers employ to steal data from compromised websites. Credit…
SQL Triggers in Website Backdoors
Luke Leal Over the past year, there’s been an increasing trend of WordPress malware using SQL triggers to hide malicious SQL queries within hacked databases. These queries…
Optimizing Performance and Behavior with WordPress and the Sucuri WAF
Marc Kranat Aside from providing significant protection from a wide range of threats, the Sucuri WAF also acts as a CDN due to its caching capabilities and…
Evaluating Cookies to Hide Backdoors
Identifying website backdoors is not always an easy task. Since a backdoors primary function is to conceal itself while providing unauthorized access, they are often…
SEO Spam Links in Nulled Plugins
Mohit Jawanjal It’s not unusual to see website owners running things on a budget. Choosing a safe and reliable hosting company, buying a nice domain name, boosting…
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…