Malvertising on a Website Without Ads
Fioravante Souza When you first configure your website, whether it be WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or any other flavor of the month, it is often in its purest…
Targeted Phishing Against GoDaddy Customers
Marc Kranat I do get a lot of phishing emails, we all do, but as security professionals we tend to recognize them immediately. Either the syntax is…
Critical Vulnerability Affecting HD FLV Player
Marc-Alexandre Montpas We’ve been notified of a critical vulnerability affecting the HD FLV Player plugin for Joomla, WordPress and custom websites. It was silently patched on Joomla…
IIS, Compromised GoDaddy Servers, and Cyber Monday Spam
Denis Sinegubko While doing an analysis of one black-hat SEO doorway on a hacked site, I noticed that it linked to many similar doorways on other websites,…
Leveraging the WordPress Platform for SPAM
Keir Desailly We’ve all seen WordPress comment and pingback spam, but thanks to strict moderation regimes and brilliant WordPress plugins that focus strictly on SPAM comments, comment…
Security Advisory – High Severity– WordPress Download Manager
Mickael Nadeau If you’re using the popular WP Download Manager plugin (around 850,000 downloads), you should update right away. During a routine audit for our Website Firewall…
Security Advisory – High Severity – InfiniteWP Client WordPress plugin
If you’re using the InfiniteWP WordPress Client plugin to manage your website, now is a good time to update. While doing a routine audit of…
JoomDonation Compromised
Daniel Cid We are receiving reports from many users of the popular JoomDonation platform that they received a very scary email from someone that supposedly hacked into…
Typos Can have a Bigger Impact Than Expected
Have you ever thought about the cost of a typo? You know what I mean, a simple misspelling of a word somewhere on your website.…
Protecting Against Unknown Software Vulnerabilities
Bugs exist in every piece of code. It is suggested that for every 1,000 lines of code, there are on average 1 to 5 bugs…
Website Malware Removal: Phishing
Joseph Herbrandson As we continue on our Malware Removal series we turn our attention to the increasing threat of Phishing infections. Just like a fisherman casts and…