• Products
    • Website Security Platform
    • Website Firewall (WAF)
    • Multi-Site plans
    • Custom & Enterprise Plans
    • Partnerships
  • Features
    • Detection
      Website Monitoring & Alerts
    • Protection
      Future Website Hacks
    • Performance
      Speed Up Your Website
    • Response
      Help For Hacked Websites
    • Backups
      Disaster Recovery Plan
  • Resources
    • Guides
    • Webinars
    • Infographics
    • Blog
    • SiteCheck
    • Reports
    • Email Courses
  • Pricing
  • Immediate Help
  • Login
  • Products
    • Website Security Platform
    • Website Firewall (WAF)
    • Multi-Site plans
    • Custom & Enterprise Plans
    • Partnerships
  • Features
    • Detection
      Website Monitoring & Alerts
    • Protection
      Future Website Hacks
    • Performance
      Speed Up Your Website
    • Response
      Help For Hacked Websites
    • Backups
      Disaster Recovery Plan
  • Resources
    • Guides
    • Webinars
    • Infographics
    • Blog
    • SiteCheck
    • Reports
    • Email Courses
  • Pricing
  • Immediate Help
  • Login
  • Immediate Help
Login
Login

New Customer?

Sign up now.
  • Submit a ticket
  • Knowledge base
  • Chat now

Browsing Tag

Botnet

12 posts
mayhem malware server botnet blog header
  • Website Malware Infections

Mayhem Malware Server Botnet Continues to Evolve

  • Jose Martinez
  • October 12, 2017
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…
Read More
IoT home router ddos attack
  • Security Education
  • Website Security

IoT Home Router Botnet Leveraged in Large DDoS Attack

  • Daniel Cid
  • September 1, 2016
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…
Read More
  • Joomla Security
  • Security Advisory
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Realstatistics Malware Campaign Leads To Ransomware

  • Daniel Cid
  • July 6, 2016
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…
Read More
Revslider new vulnerability with IRC Botnet
  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

Behind the Malware – Botnet Analysis

  • Antony Garand
  • February 24, 2016
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.…
Read More
  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • WordPress Security

WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Campaigns

  • Daniel Cid
  • February 17, 2016
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…
Read More
  • Security Education
  • Website Malware Infections
  • Website Security

FunWebProducts UserAgent Bloating Traffic

  • Alycia Mitchell
  • August 25, 2015
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…
Read More
Ghost Analytics Spam Referrers
  • Security Education
  • Website Security

Malicious Google Analytics Referral Spam

  • Alycia Mitchell
  • July 23, 2015
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…
Read More

New Brute Force Attacks Exploiting XMLRPC in WordPress

  • Daniel Cid
  • July 24, 2014
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…
Read More

Watch a Layer 7 DDOS Attack – WordPress Security

  • Estevao Avillez
  • May 14, 2014
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…
Read More

Case Study: Analyzing the Origins of a DDoS Attack

  • Daniel Cid
  • May 7, 2014
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…
Read More
  • Security Education
  • WordPress Security

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

  • Daniel Cid
  • March 10, 2014
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…
Read More
Search
Sucuri Sidebar Malware Removal to Signup Page
  • Products
    • Website Firewall
    • Website Security Platform
    • Website Backups
    • WordPress Security
    • Enterprise Services
  • Solutions
    • DDoS Protection
    • Malware Detection
    • Malware Removal
    • Malware Prevention
    • Blacklist Removal
  • Support
    • Knowledge Base
    • SiteCheck
    • Research Labs
    • Report Abuse
    • Status Report
  • Company
    • About Sucuri
    • Contact
    • Blog
    • Referral
    • Testimonials
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy
  • Do Not Sell My Personal Information
  • Frequently Asked Questions
© 2023 GoDaddy Mediatemple, Inc., d/b/a Sucuri. All rights reserved.

Sucuri Cookie Policy
See our policy>>

Our website uses cookies, which help us to improve our site and enables us to deliver the best possible service and customer experience.