Website Security News
As part of our regular research audits for our Sucuri Firewall, we discovered an SQL Injection vulnerability affecting the YITH WooCommerce Wishlist plugin for WordPress. This plugin allows visitors and potential customers to make wish lists containing products in the WooCommerce store and is currently…
Read More about SQLi Vulnerability in YITH WooCommerce Wishlist
Three years ago, researchers at Yandex discovered a complex server infection, dubbed Mayhem, that embeds itself deep within a system by compiling a shared object and running as a service….
Read More about Mayhem Malware Server Botnet Continues to Evolve
We’ve been watching a specific WordPress infection for several months and would like to share details about it. The attacks inject malicious JavaScript code into almost every .js file it…
Read More about WordPress Security – Unwanted Redirects via Infected JavaScript Files
A few weeks ago we ran an experiment to see how long it would take for some IPv4-only and IPv6-only servers to be compromised via SSH brute force attacks. We…
heWhat do you do if you suspect your server (VPS or dedicated) has been compromised? If you are a customer, you have the option to leverage our team to perform…
Read More about Investigating a Compromised Server with Rootcheck
Last March we described a WordPress attack that was responsible for hidden iframe injections that resembled Darkleech injections: declarations of styles with random names and coordinates, iframes with No-IP host…
Read More about Website Malware – Evolution of Pseudo Darkleech
Darkleech is a nasty malware infection that infects web servers at the root level. It use malicious Apache modules to insert hidden iframes with certain responses. It’s difficult to detect…
Read More about WordPress Malware Causes Psuedo-Darkleech Infection
This Sunday has started with a bang. Google has blacklisted over 11,000 domains with this latest malware campaign from SoakSoak.ru: Our analysis is showing impacts in the order of 100’s…
Read More about SoakSoak Malware Compromises 100,000+ WordPress Websites
While doing an analysis of one black-hat SEO doorway on a hacked site, I noticed that it linked to many similar doorways on other websites, and all those websites were…
Read More about IIS, Compromised GoDaddy Servers, and Cyber Monday Spam
I recently came to the realization that it might appear that we’re partial to PHP and WordPress. This realization has brought about an overwhelming need to correct that perception. While…
Read More about ASP Backdoors? Sure! It’s not just about PHP
The popular Mailpoet(wysija-newsletters) WordPress plugin had a serious file upload vulnerability a few months back, allowing an attacker to upload files to vulnerable sites. This issue was disclosed months ago…
Read More about WordPress Websites Continue to Get Hacked via MailPoet Plugin Vulnerability
