Our Incident Response Team (IRT) has been tracking a mass infection campaign over the last 2 weeks ( codenamed “Realstatistics”). This campaign has compromised thousands of websites built on the Joomla! and WordPress Content Management System (CMS). We have codenamed the campaign “Realstatistics” because of the domain being used by the attackers. The following fake analytics code was… […]
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Spotlight: WPBeginner’s Approach to WordPress Security
WPBeginner offers tutorials, tips, and tricks for WordPress beginners to improve their sites. With over 150K Twitter followers and almost 10 million monthly visitors, the website is undeniably popular. The high-quality content provided by WPBeginner helps WordPress users make better decisions and gain awareness of their options. Using research and thought leadership, WPBeginner offers guidance… […]
200k+ Parked/Expired Domains Used to Distribute Malicious Ads
Recently we wrote about domain renewal scams that used real paper letters to tricks site owners into transferring their domains and renewing them for 3-4x the normal price. However, this is not the only way to make money on expiring domains. Today, we’ll show you another questionable million-dollar business on expired domain names that hurts… […]
Large CCTV Botnet Leveraged in DDoS Attacks
Our security operations team investigate and mitigate multiple denial of service (DDoS) attacks every single day. One recent case caught our attention because of the intensity and duration of the attack, and – as we discovered through some research – how it was being done. In this article, we’ll share the specifics in an effort to track… […]
PCI Compliance for eCommerce – Choosing Between SAQ A and A-EP
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards established in a joint venture between a number of the top credit card issuers in the world – Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and JCB. It was created to provide a minimum set of security requirements designed to help protect what… […]
Domain Renewal Phishing Scams
When I received a letter in the mail asking me to renew my domain name, I immediately recognized it as a scam. The letter was designed to look like a bill, even including a return envelope for me to send payment to a company called iDNS Canada. I’d never heard of them before. The letter… […]
The Growing DDoS Threat to Website Owners
As website attacks continue to evolve, we see growing levels of sophistication in the way attackers are expanding the economics of their industry. The monetization potential of attacking websites continues to grow exponentially as more website come online (currently estimated to be over a billion live sites). With this evolution comes new tactics that we’ve… […]
Phishers Abuse Hosting Temporary URLs
Recently we told you how hackers use alternative domain names provided by web hosts to make their URLs look less suspicious. This time we’ll show a similar trick used by phishers. Phishing web pages get blacklisted very fast. That’s why hackers need to purchase many domains or compromise many websites so that they can point… […]
Magento Credit Card Stealer for Braintree Extension
We regularly find and write about malware that steals credit card details from Magento sites because attackers discover new techniques to obtain sensitive data daily. This time, the malicious code is specifically designed for Magento sites that use the Braintree extension. This extension connects a Magento store with the Braintree payment processing service that is… […]
WP Mobile Detector Vulnerability Being Exploited in the Wild
For the last few days, we have noticed an increasing number of websites infected without any outdated plugin or known vulnerability. In most cases it was a porn spam infection. Our research team started to dig into the issue and found that the common denominator across these WordPress sites was the plugin WP Mobile Detector that… […]
