This past week, we’ve been monitoring a new wave of website infections mostly impacting WordPress and Magento websites. We found that hackers have been injecting scripts from scripts.trasnaltemyrecords[.]com into multiple files and database tables. This is still the same ongoing campaign that we’ve been following for the past few years, where site visitors are redirected […]
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Down the Malware Rabbit Hole – Part 1
It’s common for malware to be encoded to hide itself—or its true intentions—but have you ever given thought to what lengths attackers will go to hide their malicious code? In our first post in this series, we’ll describe how bad actors hide their malicious code and the steps taken to reveal its true form. Malware […]
Reset Email Account Passwords after Website Infection: Follow Up
In a previous analysis of a malicious file, we demonstrated why you should always update your email account passwords after a security compromise. The information security threat landscape is always changing. Likewise, the tools used by bad actors are also evolving to evade detection by IDS/IPS and other similar services. cPanel Hosting Environment File Analysis […]
How to Prevent Cross-Site Contamination for Beginners
What is Cross-Site Contamination? Cross-site contamination happens when a hacked site infects other sites on a shared server. Think of it as your kid in daycare catching the flu, next thing you know, everybody in the family has it as well. The same happens with websites. A site can be negatively affected by neighboring sites […]
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 […]
