Mayhem Malware Server Botnet Continues to Evolve
Jose Martinez 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…
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IoT Home Router Botnet Leveraged in Large DDoS Attack
Daniel Cid 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…
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…
Behind the Malware – Botnet Analysis
Antony Garand 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.…
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…
FunWebProducts UserAgent Bloating Traffic
Alycia Mitchell 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…
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…
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…
Watch a Layer 7 DDOS Attack – WordPress Security
Estevao Avillez 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…
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…
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…