Website Security News
Most people would agree — living in a house full of accumulated debris and unnecessary objects can create a chaotic environment, and even cause health problems. This scenario is easily applicable to your website, too. You can think of your hosting environment as the home…
Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBLs) can be a great tool in your security arsenal. You may not know you’re using them, but all email providers and company email servers leverage these…
The most common type of Magento credit card stealing malware is client-side JavaScript that grabs data entered in a checkout form and sends it to a third-party server controlled by…
Read More about Evasion Tactics in Hybrid Credit Card Skimmers
During a recent investigation, our team found malicious code that reveals how attackers are performing reconnaissance to identify if sites are actively using WooCommerce in a compromised hosting environment. These…
Read More about WordPress Malware Collects Sensitive WooCommerce Data
While open-source ecommerce platforms are the most common targets for web skimmers, hackers also target paid-for software — especially if it’s used on high-profile online stores with large user-bases. This…
Read More about PinnacleCart Server-Side Skimmers and Backdoors
We regularly talk about brute force attacks on WordPress sites and explain why WordPress credentials should always be unique, complex, and hard to guess. However, the WordPress login is not…
Read More about WordPress Database Brute Force and Backdoors
Front-end JavaScript-based credit card stealing malware has garnered a lot of attention within the security community. This makes sense, since the “swipers” can be easily detected by simply scanning the…
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, which is not unusual when…
Update: Read our new PCI Compliance guide. Welcome to the seventh post of a series on understanding the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard–PCI DSS. We want to show how…
Read More about PCI for SMB: Requirement 10 & 11 – Regularly Monitor and Test Networks
In the first post of this series, we discussed some of the main website security threats. Knowing the website security environment is a vital part of a good website posture….
Read More about How to Improve Your Website Security Posture – Part II
In order to clean a malware infection, the first thing we need to know is which files have been compromised. At Sucuri, we use several techniques including whitelists, blacklists, and…
