Tag Archives: malware cleanup

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

There’s a term for the practice of scaring potential customers into purchasing products or services they don’t need: FUD; fear, uncertainty, and doubt. This practice is widespread in the computer/IT industries at large, but is especially present in the security industry. People don’t want to get hacked—but may also not understand the issues and forces […]

Ask Sucuri: How Do You Find Website Backdoors?

In a previous post, we have explained what website backdoors are and what they look like. Today, we want to focus on ways that we identify and remove backdoors to prevent reinfection. Techniques to Find Backdoors Finding a website backdoor is not an easy task because the main function of a backdoor is to keep […]

Magento Credit Card Stealer Reinfector

In the past few months, we have frequently seen how attackers are infecting Magento installations to scrape confidential information such as credit cards, logins, and PayPal credentials. That is why we have reported on a credit card stealer reinfector of Magento websites in one of our recent Labs Notes. In this post, we describe one of […]

Malicious Activities with Google Tag Manager

If I were to ask if you could trust a script from Google that is loading on your website, the majority of users would say “yes” or even “absolutely”. But when malicious behavior ensues, everything should be double-checked and suspected, even assets that come from “trusted sources” like Google, Facebook, and Youtube. In the past, […]

Hacked Website Trend Report – 2017

We are proud to be releasing our latest Hacked Website Trend Report for 2017. This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Sucuri Remediation Group (RG), which includes the Incident Response Team (IRT) and the Malware Research Team (MRT). The data presented stems from the analysis of 34,371 infected websites summarizing the […]

New Guide on How to Clean a Hacked Website

Our mission at Sucuri is to make the internet a safer place and that entails cleaning up hacked websites. We have teams who actively research website vulnerabilities and who are eager to share with you some tips on how to clean your hacked website. We are happy to help the community learn the steps they […]

Evasion Techniques in Phishing Attacks

We all know that we shouldn’t click on links from sketchy looking emails. But what if the website you’re viewing takes you to a spoofed page at the Apple ID store and asks for your login information to proceed? This tactic is called phishing, and attacks are exponentially on the rise. Used by hackers to […]

Decoding Complex Malware – Step-by-Step

When cleaning websites, one of the most complicated parts of our job is ensuring we find all backdoors. Most of the time, attackers inject code into different locations to increase the chances of reinfecting the site and maintaining access for as long as possible. Our research finds that in 67% of the websites we clean, […]

New Guide on How to Clean a Hacked Drupal Sites

Drupal is an open-source content management system and website builder with a unique structure that allows it to be highly flexible and extendible. For these reasons and more, it’s favored by technical developers and many large websites, including .gov and .edu domains. With its popularity among enterprise and mid-market users, there is a strong focus […]