Database injection, Hilary Kneber and lessthenaminutehandle dot com
David Dede 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…
Oracle.com, Wetpaint, Spammers, and the Tale of an Unmoderated Wiki
Update: A few hours after this post going live, it seems that Oracle started to clean up the wiki. Very good! Oracle’s official Wiki (at…
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…
Malware week – 0133.0331.0242.0033, javadisplay and more
Very busy week in terms of malware. First Hilary Kneber decided to make a come back, inlovebot.com and crazymasya.com reinfected a lot of sites, and…
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…
Chase phishing – case study
Last week we were called to fix a Joomla site that was infected by malware and disabled by their hosting company. The user forwarded the…
Brenz.pl is Back With Malicious iFrames
We used to see brenz.pl being used to distribute malware back in 2009, and got shut down. However, for the last few weeks we noticed…
Alexa TOP 100k Sites – The Malware Blues
How big do you think the web-based malware problem is? How many sites do you think were hacked and/or infected with malware in the last…
Grameen Bank web site hacked / infected with spam
The Grameen Bank is in the news today after one of its founders, Muhammad Yunus, was fired from it. You can see the news about…
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.…