Spotlight: Website Security Response for Photographers
Alycia Mitchell It takes a lot of bravery to create a small business. Putting yourself out there and taking risks is not for the faint of heart.…
Amazon Affiliate Cookie Stuffing
Denis Sinegubko We wrote a lot about malware in invisible iframes. This story is about a different type of invisible iframes that hackers may place on your…
Fake bb_press Plugin Redirects to Mobile Pornography
Fernando Barbosa When a website is hacked, we often find that attackers have injected multiple backdoors, web shells, and malicious code that allows them to regain access…
Hooking WordPress Class to Hide Malicious Users
John Castro When a website is compromised, attackers perform post-exploitation tasks to maintain access to the site for as long as possible. One of these actions is…
WordPress Performance Optimization Guide
Daniel Cid Since launching our website performance testing tool we have been getting a lot of questions about how to improve the speed and performance of WordPress…
Search and Backdoor
Luke Leal The ubiquity of “unlimited” shared hosting platforms has incentivized malware in trying to infect as many adjacent website directories as it can to increase its…
vBulletin Malware – When Hackers Compete for Backdoor Control
Cesar Anjos A common pattern we see in compromised websites is the presence of backdoors and other malicious code. During Q3 of 2016, we found that 72%…
Labs Notes Monthly Recap – Dec/2016
Estevao Avillez Last month there were a number of interesting website hacks being analyzed by our Malware Research Team (MRT) and Incident Response Teams (IRT). The Sucuri…
Camouflage does not have to be advanced to be effective
Often times a malware author will try to provide some type of camouflage to their malware’s coding in an effort to disguise an unsuspecting eye…
Injection of Unwanted Google AdSense Ads
During the last couple of years, it has become quite prevalent for hackers to monetize compromised sites by injecting unwanted ads. They can be pop-up…
Database and Image Tricks in Magento Malware
Magento malware that steals details of customer credit cards is a prevalent problem during the last couple of years. We write a lot about various…