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We’ve all seen sketchy looking emails or texts with malicious links to click on. There are still people who fall for these more obvious types of scams, however, phishing scam messages are designed to be deceiving. They use methods that appear valid or of some urgent…
Read More about Google and Facebook Used in Phishing Campaigns
As we have previously discussed on this blog, surreptitious cryptomining continues to be a problem as new methods emerge to both evade and hasten the ease of mining at the…
Read More about An Old Trick with a New Twist: Cryptomining Through Disguised URL Shorteners
Last week, we described how an ongoing massive malware campaign began using Baidu search result links to redirect people to various ad and scam pages. It didn’t last long. Soon…
The malware attack that began as an installation of malicious Injectbody/Injectscr WordPress plugins back in February has evolved since then. Some of the changes were documented as updates at the bottom…
Every day we face countless cases of sites getting compromised and infected by an attacker. From there, the sites can be used for various operations like spam campaigns, malware spreading…
Some website hacks aim to make some political statements. Defacements are well known for this. Some infections redirect visitors to scam sites that push (usually counterfeit) goods or (often illegal)…
Read More about Website Malware: Unwanted Exit to YourBrexit
If you use Skype, recently you may have received Baidu link spam from some of your contacts. The links look like this: www.baidu[.]com/link?url=_QIcrpeV-oOPb6HGTgigvW00e0fiBQyFjSui12FrARO#emubahyt= When you click these links you end up on…
Hackers are known to use URL shortening services to obfuscate their real landing pages. It’s very effective in clickbait scams on social networks. Some hackers think that using URL shorteners…
In today’s world, we are all browsing websites online and sharing content on a multitude of social media platforms every day. Worldwide social media users exceeded 2 billion back in…
If you ever shortened a URL using bit.ly or if you use it anywhere, be aware that Google recently blacklisted all bit.ly pages through its Safe Browsing program. It means…
This post is about how hackers abuse popular web services and how this helps security researchers obtain interesting statistics about malware attacks. We, at Sucuri, work with infected websites every…
Read More about Darkleech + Bitly.com = Insightful Statistics
