Website Security News

Malware Campaign Evolves to Target New Plugins: May 2019

John Castro
May 28, 2019

A long-lasting malware campaign targeting deprecated, vulnerable versions of plugins continues to be leveraged by attackers to inject malicious scripts into affected websites. Easily automated…

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Return to the City of Cron – Malware Infections on Joomla and WordPress

Luke Leal
May 27, 2019

We recently had a client that had a persistent malware infection on their shared hosting environment that would re-infect the files quickly after we had…

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Threat intelligence gathering from slight changes in malicious code samples

Luke Leal
May 24, 2019

We found the following PHP backdoor in August 2018 along with other malware samples uploaded after hackers exploit a specific vulnerable WordPress plugin covered in…

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.htaccess Injector on Joomla and WordPress Websites

Eugene Wozniak
May 23, 2019

During the process of investigating one of our incident response cases, we found an .htaccess code injection. It had been widely spread on the website,…

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Hosting page templates causing your website ad campaign to be blocked

Cesar Anjos
May 22, 2019

It’s quite common that hosting providers have templates set for pages like 40x and 50x error pages but it’s uncommon for those templates to have…

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Slimstat: Stored XSS from Visitors

Antony Garand
May 21, 2019

The WordPress Slimstat plugin, which currently has over 100k installs, allows your website to gather analytics data for your WordPress website. It will track certain…

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W97M/Downloader Malware Dropper Served from Compromised Websites

Bruno Zanelato
May 20, 2019

W97M/Downloader is part of a large banking malware operation that peaked in March 2016. Bad actors have been distributing this campaign for well over a…

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Who is Responsible for the Security of Your Website?

Josh Hammer
May 17, 2019

On a daily basis at Sucuri, we hear things like: “My host takes care of my website security.” “I have never been hacked, so why…

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Hex’ing the CSS Style Attribute for Black Hat SEO

Ahmad Azizan Idris
May 16, 2019

Dealing with Black Hat SEO injections on our daily operation is always fun and challenging at the same time. One day, we may work with…

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Persistent Cross-site Scripting in WP Live Chat Support Plugin

John Castro
May 15, 2019

During a routine research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an Unauthenticated Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) affecting 60,000+ users of the WP Live Chat…

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