Spotlight: How WebMechanix Provides Client Site Security
Alycia Mitchell WebMechanix is a full-service digital marketing agency focused on managing the online presences of over 100 web properties. In 2009, when WebMechanix was founded, managing…
Undeletable Doorway. Kind of.
Denis Sinegubko Recently we cleaned a site that had a malicious wp-page.php file at the root of the WordPress site. It was responsible for pharma spam doorways…
Why selling Windows keys in your blog is not a matter of choice
Bruno Zanelato Sharing spam content and getting blacklisted is not a matter of choice when a website is hacked, these are just some of the consequences when…
SQL Injection Vulnerability in Ninja Forms
Marc-Alexandre Montpas As part of our regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an SQL Injection vulnerability affecting the Ninja Forms plugin for WordPress, currently…
Mass Mailing SPAM From a Good File
Rodrigo Escobar We often find code that is developed with good intent but the security aspects of it are not always taken into consideration. During a routine…
Analyzing and Cleaning Hijacked Google SEO Spam Results
Luke Leal Blackhat SEO spam comes in many forms, and one of the most nefarious is hijacked search results. This happens when search engines crawl and display…
Fake WordPress Installs and Sunglasses Spam
Fernando Barbosa Spammers are constantly looking for ways make use of resources of hacked sites in their black hat SEO schemes. In most cases, spam injections and…
Spotlight – How Cart66 Maintains Security for Ecommerce
Cart66 offers a comprehensive plugin solution for WordPress shop owners. With a unique suite of services, intuitive features, and essential security components, Cart66 provides everything…
A Plugin’s Expired Domain Poses a Security Threat to Websites
Krasimir Konov Do you keep all of your website software (including third-party themes, plugins, and components) up to date? You should! We always recommend this to our…
Fake FreeDNS Used to Redirect Traffic to Malicious Sites
During the last couple of days, we performed a few similar cleanup requests where sites occasionally redirected visitors to malicious sites that displayed ads, spam,…
JScript ASP.NET Backdoor
Backdoors can be simple and powerful at the same time. They’re also very common to be seen along with any kind of infection so that…