Desperate scammers
Luke Leal In an ideal scenario, when a scam website is found by a blacklist authority, it’s flagged as malicious and eventually taken down by the domain…
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Fake French Police Sextortion Scam
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…
Reset Email Account Passwords After a Website Malware Infection
It’s not uncommon for bad actors to use compromised websites to send large amounts of email spam. This can cause major headaches for website owners…
My Website Was Hacked on Christmas Eve
Val Vesa Christmas is a wonderful time to spend with family and friends. A lot of kids look forward to opening their presents under the Christmas tree,…
Using Google and Facebook to aid on distribution
Fioravante Souza Every now and then I check my spam mail box for interesting malware (yes, I receive a lot of phishing messages and alerts that my…
Phishing Leveraging the Sucuri Brand
Rafael Capovilla We are always on guard for phishing emails and websites that might try to compromise our customers or employees, so that we can be on top of…
Exploited Script in WordPress Theme Sends Spam
Rodrigo Escobar Update 11/03/2017: If you want to learn how to secure WordPress, you can read all about it in our new guide. As WordPress continues to…
My Website Was Blacklisted By Google and Distributing Email Spam
Being blacklisted by Google is one of the worst things that can happen to a website. The public shame coming from every visitor being stopped…
The Art of Website Malware Removal – The Basics
Joseph Herbrandson When talking about defense against malicious hacks, the attack vector is a common topic for Information Security (InfoSec) professionals. The primary concern is to understand…
Phishing Tale: An Analysis of an Email Phishing Scam
Phishing scams are always bad news, and in light of the Google Drive scam that made the rounds again last week, we thought we’d tell…
Phishing Emails to Install Malicious WordPress Plugins
Daniel Cid When all else fails, the bad guys can always rely on some basic social engineering tactics with a little hit of phishing!! Over the weekend,…