Website Security News
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 these security releases, discover what security issue it is fixing and come up with a…
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
A hack or cyber attack is the act of maliciously entering, taking control over, or manipulating by force a web application, server, or file that belongs to someone else. Cyber…
Read More about What Hackers Do after Gaining Access to a Website
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen an increase in Troldesh ransomware using compromised websites as intermediary malware distributors. The malware often uses a PHP file that acts as a…
Last year we saw a fairly massive Magento malware campaign that injected credit card stealing code similar to this: It uses the JavaScript atob function to decode base64-encoded domain names…
Front-end JavaScript-based credit card stealing malware has garnered a lot of attention within the security community. This makes sense, since the “swipers” can be easily detected by simply scanning the…
During a recent cleanup, we found an interesting malicious WordPress plugin, “WP Security”, that was being used to encrypt blog post content. The website owner complained of a newly installed…
Read More about Malicious Plugin Used to Encrypt WordPress Posts
Most of us are familiar with Neapolitan ice cream: a flavour whose distinguishing characteristic is not one single flavour but several. Many also know it as the ice cream which…
Hardening is the process of securing a website or system against known security weaknesses or potential issues to reduce the attack surface. The more functions or features a website has,…
