Understanding CSRF: Cross-site Request Forgery Explained
Kyle Knight Cross-Site Request Forgery, often called CSRF (or its other nicknames, Session Riding and XSRF), is a tricky type of attack. In short, it lets attackers…
Vulnerability & Patch Roundup — April 2025
Sucuri Malware Research Team Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes…
MTR For Website Troubleshooting
Justin Daniel Let’s set the scene: You go to visit a website and you get a “connection timed out” error. Is this a browser, internet, firewall, or…
Fake GIF Leveraged in Multi-Stage Reverse-Proxy Card Skimming Attack
Ben Martin In today’s post we’re going to review a sophisticated, multi-stage carding attack on a Magento eCommerce website. This malware leveraged a fake gif image file,…
Easy Guide to Saving HAR Files and Console Logs for Troubleshooting
Maninder Toor When something goes wrong with a website – whether it is a broken design, slow performance, shows an error message or something else, it is…
When Good Software Goes Bad
Matt Morrow Most often bad actors try their best to hide their activities by using obfuscated code or by uploading fake plugins or themes that inject simple…
Ad-Jacked: Cybercriminals Inject Google Adsense into WordPress
Puja Srivastava Recently, we’ve encountered cases where WordPress websites were impacted by Google Adsense hijackers. Attackers inject advertisements and scripts that steal website resources and pump ad…
Fake Font Domain Used to Skim Credit Card Data
Kayleigh Martin Recently, a client of ours came to us concerned about credit card theft on their WordPress site. The client’s users reported that their credit card…
Understanding FTP and SFTP: A Guide to Secure File Transfers
Updating your website means getting files to your server, but the process can feel like a chore when simply navigating in a conventional hosting panel.…
Vulnerability & Patch Roundup — March 2025
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes…
Hidden Malware Strikes Again: Mu-Plugins Under Attack
At Sucuri, our security researchers continually monitor for new malware variants and infection techniques targeting WordPress websites. Recently, we’ve uncovered multiple cases where threat actors…