Website Security News
Our Remediation team lead Ben Martin recently found a fake Google domain that is pretty convincing to the naked eye. The malicious domain was abusing the URL shortener service is.gd: shortened URLs were being injected into the posts table of the client’s WordPress database. Whenever…
Read More about Another Fake Google Domain: fonts.googlesapi.com
Sucuri’s focus has always been on educating website owners about the latest threats and vulnerabilities — and much of that depends on our industry-leading research team. As the holiday season…
Read More about Website Security Tips for Black Friday & Cyber Monday
With the end of November comes the height of the holiday shopping season — specifically Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, which typically span the last calendar days of November…
Read More about Black Friday/Cyber Monday Ecommerce Security Threats
If you are a tech savvy person, you may have been called a “hacker” at some point by someone less technical. Maybe you’ve heard of growth hackers and life hacks….
This past week, we’ve been monitoring a new wave of website infections mostly impacting WordPress and Magento websites. We found that hackers have been injecting scripts from scripts.trasnaltemyrecords[.]com into multiple…
Read More about Vulnerable Versions of Adminer as a Universal Infection Vector
We often write about malware that steal payment information from sites built with Magento and other types of e-commerce CMS. When discussing credit card skimmers like Magecart, it’s sometimes overlooked…
We regularly clean all sorts of black hat SEO infections. During these infection cleanups, we often find compromised websites redirecting visitors to fake “Canadian Pharmacy” landing pages selling counterfeit men’s…
Last week, an ongoing WordPress malware campaign started a new wave which included a variety of experimental injection types. Scripts as Data URLs The first type looks pretty similar to…
Read More about Data URLs and HTML Entities in New WordPress Malware
Throwback Threat Thursday is a series of posts where we recall older vulnerabilities that have since been patched by their developers. In the past, these vulnerabilities caused significant impacts to…
Read More about Throwback Threat Thursday: JCE Vulnerability
We often find various fake WordPress plugins installed by hackers during website cleanups. Recently, we’ve noticed a new wave of infections that install fake plugins with backdoor functionality. Malicious 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 noticed a considerable increase in…
Read More about Cryptominers & Backdoors Found in Fake Plugins
