Link injection on hacked WordPress sites – Blackhat SEO spam
David Dede The last few months we’ve been tracking, and helping webmasters affected by a very large blackhat SEO spam campaign initiated by basicpills.com, and many other…
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WordPress 3.1.1 is available (security fixes)
There is a new version of WordPress available (3.1.1) that includes multiple security fixes. These are the changes according to WordPress.org: Some security hardening to…
APRIL FOOLS: No Serious Security Vulnerability on WordPress 3.x – Remote Command Execution
This post was not real. It was an attempt at humor, as bad as it may seem. The post has been removed, and we understand…
Database injection and lessthenaminutehandle.com – Intermediary domains
We posted a few days ago about a large scale database injection attack affecting shared hosts. The infected sites got the following javascript malware inserted…
Database injection, Hilary Kneber and lessthenaminutehandle dot com
We posted a few weeks ago about a database injection attack that infected thousands of WordPress blogs on shared hosts. At that time, the attackers…
Solution for the link injection spam from basicpills
We recently posted about a large scale blackhat SEO campaign by basicpills that infected thousands of WordPress sites over the last few weeks. A lot…
Link injection, basicpills dot com and Blackhat SEO spam
For the last few weeks we’ve been tracking a very large blackhat SEO spam campaign initiated by basicpills.com, generic-ed-pharmacy.com, getrxpills.com and a few other domains…
Hilary Kneber Again – welcometotheglobalisorg
We are seeing (again) a number of sites infected with a variation of the welcometotheglobalisnet.com malware string that appeared a few weeks ago. The details…
Yet Another WordPress Security Post – Part Two
Dre Armeda We deal with hacked sites on a daily basis and one of the most common questions we get is how to avoid getting hacked again.…
The attack from the .cc’s domains
Over the last few days we’ve continued to see a large increase in the number of sites hacked and infected with a malicious iframe from…
Hilary Kneber Strikes Again – welcometotheglobalisnet
It seems that after a few months quiet, the “Hilary Kneber” group is back at it again. Their latest approach is very typical of Hilary…