Website Security News
As part of our commitment to the website security community, we want to know the true impacts of a website compromise from the owner’s perspective. If you are a business that has dealt with any type of website attack, your participation in this six-minute survey…
A malicious PHP script, aptly given the name “Magento Killer” by its creator(s), has been found targeting Magento websites. While it doesn’t actually kill the Magento installation, it does allow…
Sucuri malware analyst Kaushal Bhavsar recently brought our attention to a massive campaign responsible for adding either “1800ForBail” or “1800ForBail – One+Number” keywords to the titles of vulnerable WordPress sites….
Website security is what we eat, sleep, and breathe. It’s what we do best because we deal with hacked websites every single day, thousands of them. Among the various types…
Read More about Why is Your Website a Target? The SEO Value of a Website
It’s no news that webmasters commonly make use of external scripts to add more features to their site, but things can turn out for the worse quite easily. What if…
Read More about Lightbox Adware – From Innocent Scripts to Malicious Redirects
When considering why hackers are attacking websites, you might think that there’s a specific reason they target you as a website owner—your business, your reputation, or your information. But the…
Logs can be very useful because they are a record of what was done by whom. They are especially useful when you need to find out more on how a…
This blog post talks about how a web spam campaign that targets only one country may create problems for sites owners around the world — even if their site is…
Read More about Korean Gambling and Call Girl Spam on Hacked and Non-hacked Sites
On May 28th, a critical OS Command Injection vulnerability affecting the WP-Database-Backup plugin was disclosed to the public by the Wordfence team. This is a very nasty bug which made…
These days, the majority of store owners opt-in for the easiest closed-source ecommerce platform options. For the most part, these platforms typically allow users to customize a template, as well…
Read More about Closed Source E-commerce Platforms Can Be Compromised
In the past, we’ve mentioned how the PHP XOR bitwise operator (represented by the caret ^) can be used to encrypt a malware’s source code. This operator makes it more…
Read More about PHP Backdoor Evaluates XOR Encrypted Requests
