Hacked Website Threat Report – 2022
Rianna MacLeod Education is crucial in defending your website against emerging threats. That’s why we are thrilled to share our 2022 Website Threat Research Report. Disseminating this…
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Attackers Abuse Cron Jobs to Reinfect Websites
Ben Martin Malicious cron jobs are nothing new; we’ve seen attackers use them quite frequently to reinfect websites. However, in recent months we’ve noticed a distinctive new…
How to Fix the “This Site May Harm Your Computer” Warning
Most modern web browsers and search authorities like Google have a vested interest in protecting their users from malware. Warning messages like “This site may…
How to Fix Google Ads Disapproved Due to Malicious or Unwanted Software
It’s estimated that 98.5% of sites who advertise use Google Ads to generate revenue and bring in traffic. That’s a hefty number of websites who…
How to Find & Clean Up the AnonymousFox Hack
Cesar Anjos The AnonymousFox hack targets insecure websites and actively exploits them to spread phishing, spam, and other malware. A major nuisance for website owners, it also…
Manually Identifying an X-Cart Credit Card Skimmer
Liam Smith During a recent investigation, a new client came to us reporting that their antivirus had detected a suspicious domain loading on their website’s checkout page.…
Examining Unique Magento Backdoors
During a recent investigation into a compromised Magento ecommerce environment, we discovered the presence of five different backdoors that would provide attackers with code execution…
Magecart Swiper Uses Unorthodox Concatenation
MageCart is the name given to the roughly one dozen groups of cyber criminals targeting e-commerce websites with the goal of stealing credit card numbers…
WooCommerce Credit Card Skimmer Hides in Plain Sight
Recently, a client’s customers were receiving a warning from their anti-virus software when they navigated to the checkout page of the client’s ecommerce website. Antivirus…
The Hidden PHP Malware that Reinfects Cleaned Files
Luke Leal Website reinfections are a serious problem for website owners, and it can often be difficult to determine the cause behind the reinfection — especially if…
Critical Vulnerability in File Manager Plugin Affecting 700k WordPress Websites
Antony Garand Yesterday, the WordPress plugin File Manager was updated, fixing a critical vulnerability allowing any website visitor to gain complete access to the website. Users of…