Website Vulnerability vs. Malware – What’s the Difference?
Art Martori To better understand the difference between website malware and vulnerabilities, imagine your online property is a brick-and-mortar structure. You’d want to keep safe from burglars,…
Is My Site Hacked? (7 Signs)
Rianna MacLeod Editorial: This post was last updated October 26th, 2022. It’s a day every website owner fears. You open the website you’ve poured your time, energy,…
SSL Testing Methods
Marc Kranat Not all SSL configurations on websites are equal, and a growing number push for HTTPS everywhere. There is an increasing demand to check and quantify…
Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam
Luke Leal We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot. What…
What is Ransomware?
Justin Channell Ransomware has been one of the scariest topics in cybersecurity for years – and for good reason. Living up to its name, ransomware is a…
Magento Credit Card Stealer: harilov[.]com
Our Remediation team lead Ben Martin recently discovered a single line obfuscated PHP injection in the main index.php file of a Magento 1.9.x website. It…
Creative Phishing for Digital Gold on RuneScape
Antony Garand RuneScape is an extremely popular massive multiplayer online game. With over 200 million generated accounts, its claim to fame is that it’s one of the…
Email Scraper: Mass Mail Grabber from Database
One of our Remediation team analysts, Liam Smith, discovered a malicious file on a client’s compromised WordPress website that demonstrates how attackers can use rudimentary…
6 Simple Steps for Hardening your WordPress Security
Juliana Lewis Having a secure WordPress site does not need to be a challenge. Hardening a website means adding security layers to reduce the risks of attacks…
Fixing “Uncommon Download” Warnings in Google Search Console
Alycia Mitchell Over the past few months, a lot of website owners have received “uncommon download” warnings from Google Search Console. These warnings can be vague, often…
Password Attacks 101
Cesar Anjos One of the most common attacks carried out nowadays is related to cracking passwords, but most people probably just know about brute-forcing. There are, in…