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…
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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.…
Massive 1800ForBail WordPress Hacks
Denis Sinegubko Sucuri malware analyst Kaushal Bhavsar recently brought our attention to a massive campaign responsible for adding either “1800ForBail” or “1800ForBail – One+Number” keywords to the…
Plugins Under Attack: June 2019
John Castro A long-lasting malware campaign (1,2) targeting deprecated, vulnerable versions of plugins continues to be leveraged by attackers to inject malicious scripts into affected websites. As…
Spam Injector Masquerading as Google Analytics
Keith Petkus The domain en-google-analytic[.]com, currently sinkholed by a security intelligence company, has been observed by our team to be part of a mass spam injection campaign.…
Leveraging Stored Procedures for Nefarious Purposes
Bruno Zanelato Here at Sucuri, we clean thousands of websites on a daily basis, and while some of them are easy to solve, others may require more…
Hiding a Hacktool Using a .jpg Extension
Hackers will do anything to hide their intentions behind the files they upload to compromised websites. This time, we’ve found a hacktool hidden inside a…
Korean Gambling and Call Girl Spam on Hacked and Non-hacked Sites
This blog post talks about how a web spam campaign that targets only one country may create problems for sites owners around the world —…
OS Command Injection in WP-Database-Backup
Marc-Alexandre Montpas On May 28th, a critical OS Command Injection vulnerability affecting the WP-Database-Backup plugin was disclosed to the public by the Wordfence team. This is a…
WordPress Hacks: 5 Ways to Protect WordPress from Hacking
Dutch Hill WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) out there. That’s why it is vital to prevent WordPress hacking. Statistically, over 33%…
Malware Campaign Evolves to Target New Plugins: May 2019
A long-lasting malware campaign targeting deprecated, vulnerable versions of plugins continues to be leveraged by attackers to inject malicious scripts into affected websites. Easily automated…