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Most of us are familiar with Neapolitan ice cream: a flavour whose distinguishing characteristic is not one single flavour but several. Many also know it as the ice cream which your roommate eats all of the chocolate, leaving you with the paltry remains of the…
In a previous analysis of a malicious file, we demonstrated why you should always update your email account passwords after a security compromise. The information security threat landscape is always…
Read More about Reset Email Account Passwords after Website Infection: Follow Up
During the past year, our Remediation department has seen a large increase in the number of fully spammed sites. The common factors are strangely named and unusually located favicon.ico files,…
We recently had a client that had a persistent malware infection on their shared hosting environment that would re-infect the files quickly after we had cleaned them. The persistence was…
Read More about Return to the City of Cron – Malware Infections on Joomla and WordPress
Attackers commonly rely on backdoors to easily gain reentry and maintain control over a website. They also use PHP functions to further deepen the level of their backdoors. A good…
We recently noticed an interesting example of network infrastructure resources being used over a period of time by more than one large scale malware campaign (e.g redirected traffic, cryptomining). This…
Read More about Malware Campaigns Sharing Network Resources: r00ts.ninja
We are proud to be releasing our latest Hacked Website Trend Report for 2018. This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the GoDaddy Security / Sucuri team,…
Christmas is a wonderful time to spend with family and friends. A lot of kids look forward to opening their presents under the Christmas tree, but not all of them…
All across the internet, we find guides and tutorials on how to keep your WordPress site secure. Most of them approach the concept of user roles, but not many actually…
Last month, we shared information about yet another series of ongoing massive infections using multiple different vectors to inject malicious scripts into WordPress websites. Shortly after, the campaign changed the…
Read More about Multiple Ways to Inject the Same Tech Support Scam Malware
Finding backdoors is one of the biggest challenges of a website security analyst, as backdoors are designed to be hidden in case the malware is found and removed. Website Backdoors A…
