New Wave of the Test0.com/Test5.xyz Redirect Hack
Last week we described the hack that randomly redirected site visitors either to a parked test0 .com domain or to malicious sites via the default7 .com domain. This week the default7 .com domain went...
View ArticleWordPress Redirect Hack via Test0.com/Default7.com
We’ve been working on a few WordPress sites with the same infection that randomly redirects visitors to malicious sites via the default7 .com / test0 .com / test246 .com domains. In this post, we’ll...
View ArticleWebsite Ransomware – CTB-Locker Goes Blockchain
During the last couple of years, website ransomware has become one of the most actively developing types of malware. After infamous fake anti-viruses, this it the second most prominent wave of malware...
View ArticleWebsite Malware – Evolution of Pseudo Darkleech
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...
View ArticlevBulletin Exploits in the Wild
**Update: CheckPoint disclosed more details here: Check Point Discovers Critical vBulletin 0-Day. The vBulletin team patched a serious object injection vulnerability yesterday, that can lead to full...
View ArticleWordPress Malware – VisitorTracker Campaign Update
For the last 3 weeks we have been tracking a malware campaign that has been compromising thousands of WordPress sites with the VisitorTracker malware code. We initially posted some details about this...
View Article.htaccess Tricks in Global.asa Files
As you might know a lot of hacks use Apache configuration .htaccess files to override default web site behavior: add conditional redirects, create virtual paths (e.g mod_rewrite), auto-append code to...
View ArticleWebsite Malware – The SWF iFrame Injector Evolves
Last year, we released a post about a malware injector found in an Adobe Flash (.SWF) file. In that post, we showed how a .SWF file is used to inject an invisible, malicious iFrame. It appears that the...
View ArticleWordPress Malware Causes Psuedo-Darkleech Infection
Darkleech is a nasty malware infection that infects web servers at the root level. It use malicious Apache modules to add hidden iFrames to certain responses. It’s difficult to detect because the...
View ArticleInverted WordPress Trojan
Trojan (or trojan horse) is software that does (or pretends to be doing) something useful but also contains a secret malicious payload that inconspicuously does something bad. In WordPress, typical...
View ArticleWhy A Free Obfuscator Is Not Always Free.
We all love our code but some of us love it so much that we don’t want anyone else to read or understand it. When you think about it, that’s understandable – hours and hours of hard dev work, days of...
View ArticleAnalyzing Malicious Redirects in the IP.Board CMS
Although the majority of our posts describe WordPress and Joomla attacks (no wonder, given their market-share), there are still attacks that target smaller CMS’s and we help clean all kinds of sites....
View ArticleWebsite Malware – The SWF iFrame Injector Evolves
Last year, we released a post about a malware injector found in an Adobe Flash (.SWF) file. In that post, we showed how a .SWF file is used to inject an invisible, malicious iFrame. It appears that the...
View ArticleWordPress Malware Causes Psuedo-Darkleech Infection
Source: The National Archives (UK) Darkleech is a nasty malware infection that infects web servers at the root level. It use malicious Apache modules to add hidden iFrames to certain responses. It’s...
View ArticleInverted WordPress Trojan
Trojan (or trojan horse) is software that does (or pretends to be doing) something useful but also contains a secret malicious payload that inconspicuously does something bad. In WordPress, typical...
View ArticleWhy A Free Obfuscator Is Not Always Free.
We all love our code but some of us love it so much that we don’t want anyone else to read or understand it. When you think about it, that’s understandable – hours and hours of hard dev work, days of...
View ArticleAnalyzing Malicious Redirects in the IP.Board CMS
Although the majority of our posts describe WordPress and Joomla attacks (no wonder, given their market-share), there are still attacks that target smaller CMS’s and we help clean all kinds of sites....
View ArticleBogus Mobile-Shortcuts WordPress Plugin Injects SEO Spam
Here at Sucuri we see countless cases of SEO spam where a website is compromised in order to spread pharmaceutical advertisements or backlinks to sites selling luxury goods. Most of the time this...
View ArticleWebsites Compromised with CloudFrond Injection
If you haven’t already noticed, we spent a good deal of time scraping the bottom of the interweb barrel. It’s dirty work, but someone has to do it. I’m not going to lie though, to us it’s fascinating...
View ArticleSoakSoak: Payload Analysis – Evolution of Compromised Sites – IE 11
Thousands of WordPress sites have been hit by the SoakSoak attack lately. At this moment we know quite a lot about it; it uses the RevSlider vulnerability as a point of penetration, then uploads a...
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