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Malicious Image Defacement Hidden from Search Engines

After carefully designing a theme and images that represent your brand, nothing is worse than seeing a malicious image suddenly associated with your business or website. In a recent blog post, we discussed a case in which a lewd image was showing in the Google Maps Images section for one of our client’s businesses. Today […]

Ecommerce Security – Customer Data Breaches Using Images

Since late last year, there has been a steady rise in malware campaigns that aim to steal sensitive personal information and financial credentials. Attackers often insert pieces of malicious code in the middle of a shopping cart process, allowing them to leak credit card numbers, billing addresses,  and identification numbers. The main objective is one […]

Spotting a Hidden SEO Hack: “Play One”

SEO hacks continue to plague websites as attackers abuse SERP rankings for their own gain. The time and effort spent by the website owner creating content, optimizing pages and building links is stolen by an attacker in an instant. For many years, spam injections placed inside legitimate pages have remained one of the most prevalent […]

Testing the Impacts of Website Caching Tools

Try to remember what you ate for lunch yesterday. It took you about 3-5 seconds, right? Ok. Now recall that memory once more. Took you less than a second this time, for sure. You remembered much faster the second time around because you didn’t have to “query” that information again from your brain’s “storage”. The […]

Buongiorno, Roma! Cloudflare Data Center CV

CC-BY 2.0 image by Ilaria Giacomi We’re excited to announce Cloudflare’s 105th data center in Rome. Visitors in Italy (and especially around the region of Lazio) to over 6 million Internet properties now benefit from reduced latency and increased security. As our global network grows in breadth and capacity, we are able to stop attacks […]

¡Hola, Ecuador! Quito Data Center expands Cloudflare network to 104 cities across 52 countries

CC-BY 2.0 image by Scipio Located only 15 miles from the Equator, we are excited to announce Cloudflare’s newest data center in the World Heritage City of Quito, Ecuador. This deployment is made possible in partnership with the NAP.EC Internet exchange run by AEPROVI (Asociación de empresas proveedoras de servicios de internet). Our newest data […]

Malicious Subdirectories Strike Again

In a previous post, we illustrated how attackers were fetching information from compromised sites under their control to display spam content on other hacked websites. By adding malicious files into a directory and using the victim’s database structure, attackers were able to inject ads and promote their products. This time, attackers used a similar technique […]