What Is a Keylogger?
Rianna MacLeod Welcome to the world of keyloggers, where every keystroke you make may be watched, recorded, and potentially used against you! Now that we’ve got your…
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Vulnerability in Essential Addons for Elementor Leads to Mass Infection
Ben Martin On May 11th, 2023, the very popular WordPress plugin Essential Addons for Elementor released a patch for a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, initially discovered by…
Websites Defaced with Belarusian Bottled Water Company Content
It’s not often that we get the opportunity to write about website defacements on this blog. Defacements — where a website homepage is replaced with…
What is Steganography? (Or, How Hackers Hide Malware On Websites)
As a child, I loved sending secret messages to my friends using invisible ink. A quick squeeze of lemon juice was all I needed to…
Limit Login Attempts Vulnerability – Patch Now!
On April 11th, 2023, a software update was released to patch a severe vulnerability within the Limit Login Attempts WordPress security plugin. With over 600,000…
Balada Injector: Synopsis of a Massive Ongoing WordPress Malware Campaign
Denis Sinegubko Our team at Sucuri has been tracking a massive WordPress infection campaign since 2017 — but up until recently never bothered to give it a…
WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Reveals Tampered Plugin
Disclaimer: The malware infection described in this article does not affect the software plugin as a whole and does not indicate any vulnerabilities or security…
How to Know If You’re Under DDoS Attack
Stephen Johnston Nowadays, the term DDoS raises the heart rate of most webmasters. Though many don’t know exactly what a DDoS attack is, they might be familiar…
What is a Website Defacement?
Defacement is easily one the most obvious signs of a hacked website. In these attacks, bad actors gain unauthorized access to an environment and leave…
Magbo Spam Injection Encoded with hex2bin
We recently had a new client come to us with a rather peculiar issue on their WordPress website: They were receiving unwanted popup advertisements but…
Is My Site Hacked? (13 Signs)
Symptoms of a hack can vary wildly. A concerning security alert from Google, a browser warning when you visit your site, or even a notice…