This post is a dissection of one of a few backdoor variations hackers are uploading via the RevSlider security hole. We also provide webmasters a complete mitigation plan. In the previous post we described how hackers upload a ZIP file which appears to be a new plugin theme, but in reality is being used to […]
New Malware Campaign – WPcache-Blogger – Affects Thousands more WordPress Websites via RevSlider
If SoakSoak wasn’t enough, we are starting to see a new malware campaign leveraging the RevSlider vulnerability and compromising thousands of WordPress sites in the last few days. Unlike SoakSoak, it’s comprised of 3 distinct malframes – creating one new campaign. We’re tracking each closely: 1- wpcache-blogger: This campaign is using the domain wpcache-blogger.com as […]
SoakSoak Campaign Evolves – New Wave of Attacks
Since Sunday, we have seen a new wave of SoakSoak reinfections. The Javascript continues to evolve and load other scripts in order to infect additional websites. We have updates for concerned webmasters looking to stay on top of the threat and keep their site protected against these kinds of attacks. To those websites that have […]
Kyoto Tycoon Secure Replication
Kyoto Tycoon is a distributed key-value store written by FAL Labs, and it is used extensively at CloudFlare. Like many popular key-value stores, Kyoto Tycoon uses timestamp-based replication to ensure eventual consistency and guarantee ordering. Kyoto Tycoon is an open source project, and in the spirit of the holidays, we’re contributing our internal changes back […]
How to Automatically Log out Idle Users in WordPress
Website security is a major concern nowadays. It is best to keep your site’s plugins and security software up to date. Here is another plugin that you can add to make your site more secure. How to Automatically Log out Idle Users in WordPress Running a multi author WordPress site comes with new challenges. For […]
How to Bulk Edit Featured Images in WordPress
Ever wanted to update the featured images in your site in one go? Assign images in all your posts? This plugin is the answer. You can read all about it here.
SoakSoak: Payload Analysis – Evolution of Compromised Sites – IE 11
Thousands of WordPress sites has been hit by the SoakSoak attack lately. At this moment we know quit a lot about it. It uses the RevSlider vulnerability as a point of penetration. Then uploads a backdoor and infects all websites that share the same server account (so sites that don’t use the RevSlider plugin can […]
RevSlider Vulnerability Leads To Massive WordPress SoakSoak Compromise
Yesterday we disclosed a large malware campaign targeting and compromising over 100,000 WordPress sites, and growing by the hour. It was named SoakSoak due to the first domain used in the malware redirection path (soaksoak.ru). After a bit more time investigating this issue, we were able to confirm that the attack vector is the RevSlider […]
How to Get Your Blog Post on the First Page of Google
“We should rename SEO indicate relevance,” says Andy @Crestodia, the content chemist.” The article below is an interview with Andy Crestodina. He is the Strategic Director for Orbit and he has provided web strategy advice to more than 1000 businesses over the last 12 years. Andy loves to teach web marketing, both as a public […]
SoakSoak Malware Compromises 100,000+ WordPress Websites
This Sunday has started with a bang. Google has blacklisted over 11,000 domains with this latest malware campaign from SoakSoak.ru: Google Blacklisting – SoakSoak.ru Our analysis is showing impacts in the order of 100’s of thousands of WordPress specific websites. We cannot confirm the exact vector, but preliminary analysis is showing correlation with the Revslider […]
