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October 12, 2017Jose Martinez

Mayhem Malware Server Botnet Continues to Evolve

Three years ago, researchers at Yandex discovered a complex server infection, dubbed Mayhem, that embeds itself deep within a system by compiling a shared object and running as a service. This also allows the malware to operate under restricted privileges, and is difficult to clean…

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IoT home router ddos attack

September 1, 2016Daniel Cid

IoT Home Router Botnet Leveraged in Large DDoS Attack

We have been monitoring a large-scale Layer 7 HTTPS flood attack (i.e., application level DDoS) against a customer over the past few weeks. It is being distributed across 47,000 IP…

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July 6, 2016Daniel Cid

Realstatistics Malware Campaign Leads To Ransomware

Our Incident Response Team (IRT) has been tracking a mass infection campaign over the last two weeks ( codenamed “Realstatistics“). This campaign has compromised thousands of websites built on the Joomla! and WordPress…

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Revslider new vulnerability with IRC Botnet

February 24, 2016Antony Garand

Behind the Malware – Botnet Analysis

While analyzing our website firewall logs we discovered an old vulnerability being retargeted in RevSlider, a popular WordPress plugin. In 2014 / 2015, this led to massive website compromises. Now it’s being leveraged again…

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February 17, 2016Daniel Cid

WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Campaigns

We first disclosed that the WordPress pingback method was being misused to perform massive layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks back in March 2014. The problem being that any WordPress website with…

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August 25, 2015Alycia Mitchell

FunWebProducts UserAgent Bloating Traffic

Every once in a while we get a case that makes us dig deep to find answers. We have spoken before about the trouble with forensics and reasons why websites…

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Ghost Analytics Spam Referrers

July 23, 2015Alycia Mitchell

Malicious Google Analytics Referral Spam

Robots (bots) have outnumbered people on the Internet for almost two years, and they browse much faster than your average visitor. Aside from spamming your comment systems and crawling for vulnerable…

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July 24, 2014Daniel Cid

New Brute Force Attacks Exploiting XMLRPC in WordPress

Brute force attacks against WordPress have always been very common. In fact, Brute Force attacks against any CMS these days is a common occurrence, what is always interesting however are…

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May 14, 2014Estevao Avillez

Watch a Layer 7 DDOS Attack – WordPress Security

A few weeks back we reported on very large Layer 7 DDOS attacks within the WordPress ecosystem. Today we decided to provide you a little illustration of what that looks…

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May 7, 2014Daniel Cid

Case Study: Analyzing the Origins of a DDoS Attack

Recently a client was experiencing a massive layer 7 DDOS attack, generating tens of thousands of random HTTP requests per second to the server. The architecture of the website included…

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March 10, 2014Daniel Cid

More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a common trend on our blog lately, and that’s okay because it’s a very serious issue for every website owner. Today I…

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