What 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 the incident response on your behalf, but what if you want to do an investigation on your own? In this post, we will talk aboutRead […]
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WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Campaigns
We first disclosed that the WordPress pingback method was being misused to perform massive layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks back on March 2014. The problem, as previously described,was that any WordPress website with the pingback feature enabled (which is on by default) could be used to attack the availability of other websites. The attacks wouldRead […]
Fake SUPEE-5344 Patch Steals Payment Details
In case you don’t know, SUPEE-5344 is an official security patch to the infamous Magento shoplift bug. That bug allows bad actors to obtain admin access to vulnerable Magento sites. While the patch was released February 2015 many sites unfortunately did not update, this gave hackers an opportunity to compromise thousands of Magento powered online stores. The anatomy of theRead […]
Seo-moz.com SEO Spam Campaign
Here at Sucuri we handle countless cases of SEO spam. This malware involves a website being compromised in order to spread (mostly pharmaceutical) advertisements by linking visitors to unwanted websites and stuffing spam keywords into the site. These links and keywords help the spam websites to rank higher in search engines like Google, sending evenRead […]
Magento PCI Compliance Issues and Theft Over TLS
With about 30% of the market share, Magento is gradually becoming a “WordPress” of the ecommerce world. Like WordPress, it becomes a major target for hackers due to its popularity. However, in the case of Magento, the main goal that hackers pursue is to steal money, either from shop customers or the shop owners. DuringRead […]
Server Security: Import WordPress Events to OSSEC
We leverage OSSEC extensively to help monitor and protect our servers. If you are not familiar with OSSEC, it is an open source Intrusion Detection System (HIDS); it has a powerful correlation and analysis engine that integrates log analysis, file integrity monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting, and active response. It provides complete coverageRead […]
Massive Admedia/Adverting iFrame Infection
This past weekend we registered a spike in WordPress infections where hackers injected encrypted code at the end of all legitimate .js files. The distinguishing features of this malware are: 32 hex digit comments at the beginning and end of the malicious code. E.g. /*e8def60c62ec31519121bfdb43fa078f*/ This comment is unique on every infected site. Most likely an MD5Read […]
The Risks of Hiring a Bad SEO Company
Today we are not going to explore malware or any other overtly malicious traffic. Instead this post is a warning about dishonest marketing tactics used by services claiming to improve your website traffic or Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We recently received a report from one our clients claiming that their website was experiencing a DistributedRead […]
Security Advisory: Stored XSS in Magento
Security Risk: Dangerous Exploitation Level: Easy/Remote DREAD Score: 7/10 Vulnerability: Stored XSS Patched Version: Magento CE: 1.9,2.3, Magento EE: 1.14.2.3 During our regular research audits for our Cloud-based WAF, we discovered a Stored XSS vulnerability affecting the Magento platform that can be easily exploited remotely. We notified the Magento team and worked with them toRead […]
Server Security: OSSEC Integrates Slack and PagerDuty
We leverage OSSEC extensively to help monitor and protect our servers. If you are not familiar with OSSEC, it is an open source Intrusion Detection System (HIDS); it has a powerful correlation and analysis engine that integrates log analysis, file integrity monitoring, centralized policy enforcement, rootkit detection, real-time alerting, and active response. It provides complete coverageRead […]
