Have you ever wondered if the websites you (or your family) visit contain code that is potentially harmful to you or your computer? If you are a Chrome user, then you’re in luck because we’ve made it much simpler for you to utilize SiteCheck, our website malware scanner. Whether you want to scan your own […]
Malicious iFrame Injections Host Payload on Tumblr
It’s always fun to watch malware developers using different techniques to code their creations. Sometimes it’s a matter of obfuscation, placement, injection, but this time it’s how they code it to be dynamic. I believe this is not the first one that uses this service, but it’s the first time I’m seeing it. Twitter and […]
PHP Backdoors: Hidden With Clever Use of Extract Function
When a site gets compromised, one thing we know for sure is that attackers love to leave malware that allows them access back to the site; this type of malware is called a backdoor. This type of malware was named this because it allows for remote control of a compromised website in a way that […]
Mysterious Zencart Redirects Leverage HTTP Headers
About a week ago we got an interesting Zencart case. Being that we don’t often write about Zencart we figured it’d be good time to share the case and details on what we found. The Scenario The site was redirecting to “www .promgirl .de”. I know, not very unique. Additionally, it was only affecting “www” […]
Not Just Pills or Payday Loans, It’s Essay SEO SPAM!
Remember back in school or college when you had to write pages and pages of long essays, but had no time to write them? Or maybe you were just too lazy? Yeah, good times. Well, it seems like some companies are trying to end this problem. They are offering services where clients pay them to […]
Introducing Strict SSL: Protecting Against a Man-in-the-Middle Attack on Origin Traffic
At CloudFlare, we are always looking for ways to improve the security of our customers’ websites. One of the features we provide is the ability to serve their website encrypted over SSL/TLS. Today we are announcing a new feature to help make encryption on the web safer and more secure: Full SSL (Strict). With strict […]
Fighting back responsibly
Today on The Day We Fight Back, companies are coming together to protest the NSA’s mass surveillance programs. CloudFlare is proud to be one of those companies. We are taking a stand and proclaiming that “we will push back against powers that seek to observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action.” Set Boundaries with […]
Joomla JomSocial Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
The JomSocial team just released an update that fixes a very serious remote code execution vulnerability that affects any JomSocial version older than 3.1.0.4. From their hot-fix update: Yesterday we released version 3.1.0.4 which fixes two vulnerabilities. As a result of the first vulnerability, our own site was hacked. Thankfully, our security experts spotted the […]
Darkleech + Bitly.com = Insightful Statistics
This post is about how hackers abuse popular web services, and how this helps security researchers obtain interesting statistics about malware attacks. We, at Sucuri, work with infected websites every day. While we see some particular infections on one site or on multiple sites, we can’t accurately tell how many more sites out there are […]
Participate in the Day We Fight Back with One Click
At CloudFlare, we’re fiercely committed to an open internet. That’s why we’re announcing a new app that lets you easily add to your website a banner from The Day We Fight Back. The DayWeFightBack.org has organized a protest against mass surveillance set for Tuesday, February 11th. The banner that your visitors would see urges them […]
