Website Security News
There has been a noted increase in the number of sextortion scams during 2019. These scam campaigns are commonly distributed through email, but any method of digital communication can be used to deliver the blackmail threat to the victim. Blackmail Attempts for Bitcoin Payments The…
We are proud to be releasing our latest Hacked Website Trend Report for 2018. This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the GoDaddy Security / Sucuri team,…
Recently we came across a malicious campaign injecting scripts that push fake browser updates onto site visitors. This is what a typical fake update request looks like: Users see a…
Read More about Fake Browser Updates Push Ransomware and Bank Malware
The most effective phishing and malware campaigns usually employ one of the following two age-old social engineering techniques: Impersonation These online phishing campaigns impersonate a popular brand or product through…
Read More about Hackers Use Fake Google reCAPTCHA to Cloak Banking Malware
Here at Sucuri, we clean WordPress websites every day. There are various types of common malware, but when we stumble upon a different scenario, our research team likes to dig…
Read More about Spam Injector Disguised as License Key in WordPress Website
Every day we see different website infections. When we receive unusual or interesting cases, our researcher instincts are triggered to investigate the unusual website behavior in order to understand how…
Most websites today use cookies. Since May 25th, 2018, all websites that do business in the European Union (EU) had to make some changes to be compliant with the EU…
Read More about Cookie Consent Script Used to Distribute Malware
We handle an enormous number of SEO spam infections here at Sucuri. In Q3 of 2016, approximately 37% of all website infection cases were related to SEO spam campaigns through…
Read More about Malware Serving SEO Spam from External Sites
We all know that we shouldn’t click on links from sketchy looking emails. But what if the website you’re viewing takes you to a spoofed page at the Apple ID…
Last year we took a look at how attackers were infecting Drupal installations to spread their spam and keep their campaigns going by just including a malicious file in each…
Read More about Evolution of Conditional Spam Targeting Drupal Sites
Unwanted ads are one of the most common problems that site owners ask us to solve. Recently, we’ve noticed quite a few requests to remove intrusive “shorte st” ads that…
Read More about Unwanted “Shorte St” Ads in Unpatched Newspaper Theme
