Website Security News
We often find various fake WordPress plugins installed by hackers during website cleanups. Recently, we’ve noticed a new wave of infections that install fake plugins with backdoor functionality. Malicious Plugins Sourced from UpdraftPlus Attackers have been using different names for these fake plugins, including initiatorseo…
When cleaning websites, we regularly find phishing pages, malicious code injected into files, and SEO spam. However, over the past couple of months we’ve also noticed a considerable increase in…
Read More about Cryptominers & Backdoors Found in Fake Plugins
It’s common for malware to be encoded to hide itself—or its true intentions—but have you ever given thought to what lengths attackers will go to hide their malicious code? In…
We’ve been following an ongoing malware campaign for the past couple of years now. This campaign is renowned for its prompt addition of exploits for newly discovered WordPress theme and…
A new remote code execution (RCE) zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed by an anonymous researcher on the full disclosure mailing list this past Monday. This vulnerability is extremely severe. It…
Once an attacker manages to hack and gain access to a target site or system, they typically work hard to maintain their access—as long as it can to help them…
Single sign-on (SSO) allows users to sign into a single account (e.g Google) and access other services like YouTube or Gmail without authenticating with a separate username and password. This…
Read More about Fake SSO Used In Multi-Email Provider Phishing
Last week, WordPress released version 5.2.3 which was a security and maintenance update, and as such, contained many security fixes. Part of our day to day work is to analyse…
Before we get into the details of “Cryptocurrency Mining Malware”, we need to understand first what cryptocurrency is and what miners are. What is Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is best thought of…
These days, we consider a malware campaign massive if it affects a couple thousand websites. However, back in the day when Sucuri first started its operations, the scale of infections…
Read More about TimThumb Attacks: The Scale of Legacy Malware Infections
A website owner recently reached out to us about a pop-up advertisement problem on their website which occurred any time someone clicked anywhere on the web page. This irritating pop-up…
Read More about How Domain Expiration Can Potentially Disrupt Other Websites
