Evaluating Cookies to Hide Backdoors
Luke Leal 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…
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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…
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.…
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…
Code Comments Reveal SCP 173 Malware
We sometimes find malware code injections that contain strange code comments, which are normally used by programmers to annotate a section of code — for…
Reflected XSS in WordPress v5.5.1 and Lower
Marc-Alexandre Montpas WordPress released version 5.5.2 yesterday, which fixed a reflected XSS vulnerability we reported earlier this year. The root cause of this issue is a bug…
R_Evil WordPress Hacktool & Malicious JavaScript Injections
We often see hackers reusing the same malware, with only a few new adjustments to obfuscate the code so that it is more difficult for…
Backdoor Shell Dropper Deploys CMS-Specific Malware
A large majority of the malware we find on compromised websites are backdoors that allow an attacker to maintain unauthorized access to the site and…
WordPress Malware Disables Security Plugins to Avoid Detection
An alarm or monitoring system is a great tool that can be used to improve the security of a home or website, but what if…