Website Security News
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 the only point of entry that hackers use to break into sites. Since the WordPress…
Read More about WordPress Database Brute Force and Backdoors
How many websites do you currently have on your server? If the answer is something along the lines of, “One that I really care about, some older ones that I…
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
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…
What is Cross-Site Contamination? Cross-site contamination happens when a hacked site infects other sites on a shared server. Think of it as your kid in daycare catching the flu, next…
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This post provides a brief overview of how to manually remove server-side cryptominers and other types of Binary-Process-Cron malware from a server. Unlike browser-based JavaScript cryptominers that have been injected…
Read More about Cryptominers: Binary-Process-Cron Variants and Methods of Removal
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…
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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
