Brian Dye tells the Wall Street Journal that antivirus tools like his company’s Norton suite are effectively “dead” because they catch less than half of all attacks, but from where we sit, that’s really just half the story. Does Brian mean that antivirus defenses–also know as “AV”– are useless? Probably not. Just like you should […]
Watch a Layer 7 DDOS Attack – WordPress Security
A few weeks back we reported on very large Layer 7 DDOS attacks within the WordPress ecosystem. Today we decided to provide you a little illustration of what that looks like. Remember, there is a big difference between Brute Force and Denial of Service attacks, this is specifically for a large DDOS attack involving 40k […]
Case Study: Analyzing the Origins of a DDoS Attack
Recently a client was experiencing a massive layer 7 DDOS attack, generating tens of thousands of random HTTP requests per second to the server. The architecture of the website included a cluster of three web servers responsible for handling all incoming traffic, which did little to alleviate the pressures brought about the attack. An interesting […]
Killing RC4: The Long Goodbye
At CloudFlare we spend a lot of time thinking about the best way to keep our customers’ data safe. Despite recent troubles, HTTPS is still the best way to deliver encrypted content for the web. As the threat landscape changes we try to keep up with best practices with respect to which cryptographic primitives we […]
Does Sucuri work with my host? Yes, Yes we do.
We’ve been scanning and removing malware from websites for years, and in this time frame we have seen the website security domain grow by leaps and bounds. Over the same period, the ubiquity of the internet has reached to all corners of the globe, and the number of websites worldwide has skyrocketed (estimated at 955 […]
Tracking our SSL configuration
Over time we’ve updated the SSL configuration we use for serving HTTPS as the security landscape has changed. In the past we’ve documented those changes in blog posts; to make things simpler to track, and so that people can stay up to date on the configuration we’ve chosen, I’ve created a Github repository called sslconfig. […]
SiteCheck Extended – Making It Easier to Scan Your Websites
Sucuri SiteCheck is our free website malware scanner that crawls any website to detect signs of Malware injections, SEO Spam, Blacklisting, Defacement and other similar indicators of a compromised website. It is widely used by Webmasters to verify if their sites have not been compromised or blacklisted. And now we’re extending it to other platfroms, […]
AdSense Blackmail – Hacking Websites for Profit
We deal with different types of malware injections and compromises everyday and the most common question our clients ask us is, “Why me? Why my small little site?” There are so many answers to this question. In some cases, someone may attack a site for fun, they may do so in the name of “Hacktivism” […]
PHP Callback Functions: Another Way to Hide Backdoors
We often find new techniques employed by malware authors. Some are very interesting, others are pretty funny, and then there are those that really stump us in their creativity and effectiveness. This post is about the latter. Everyone who writes code in PHP knows what the eval() function is for. It evaluates a string as […]
Joomla Plugin Constructor Backdoor
We recently wrote about backdoors in pirated commercial WordPress plugins. This time it will be a short post about an interesting backdoor we found in a Joomla plugin. It was so well organized that at first we didn’t realize there was a backdoor even though we knew something was wrong. Here’s what the code of […]
