What is the 503 Service Unavailable Error & How to Fix It
Rianna MacLeod Imagine for a moment that you’re searching for a topic. You find what you’re looking for on the first page of Google’s search results and…
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Cryptominers & WebAssembly in Website Malware
Cesar Anjos WebAssembly (also referred to as Wasm) is a binary instruction format that runs in the browser to enable high-performance applications on web pages and can…
Infected WordPress Site Reveals Malicious C&C Script
Krasimir Konov Bitcoin prices are down 60% year to date, trading far from the all-time highs of $69,000 seen last November. Some altcoins have plummeted even farther…
Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019
The threat landscape for website owners is constantly shifting on a regular basis — and it’s becoming increasingly more complex. As attackers continue to develop…
Fake French Police Sextortion Scam
Luke Leal 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…
Cryptominers & Backdoors Found in Fake Plugins
When cleaning websites, we regularly find phishing pages, malicious code injected into files, and SEO spam. However, over the past couple of months we’ve also…
What is Cryptocurrency Mining Malware?
Brian Bautista 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?…
Cryptomining Dropper and Cronjob Creator
Recently, someone reached out to us about a malicious process they had discovered running on their web server. This process was maxing out the CPU,…
ThinkPHP 5.x Remote Code Execution
John Castro Earlier this year, we noticed an increase in attacks aiming at ThinkPHP, which is a PHP framework that is very popular in Asia. If you…
Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja
We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign…
Obfuscated JavaScript Cryptominer
Samuel Odendaal During an incident response investigation, we detected an interesting piece of heavily obfuscated JavaScript malware. Once decoded, we found out that cryptominers were running on visitor’s…