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 […]
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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 […]
Fake WordPrssAPI Stealing Cookies and Hijacking Sessions
Cookies are stored in the user’s browser to track behavior on a specific website. They also keep a user logged in during the active browsing session. Without cookies a user would need to log in, in order to authenticate every action they take. Essentially, cookies keep a user logged in until they either log out […]
New Guide on How to Fix Hacked Magento Sites
Ecommerce refers to websites that involve online purchases. This functionality sparks new challenges, concerns, and requirements for website security. Online shopping, to many people, is almost synonymous with a certain kind of risk – and not without good reason. Over the holidays, we wrote a lot about the rise of credit card swipers. With the […]
New Guide on How to Fix Hacked Joomla! Sites
Joomla! is one of the most popular open-source content management systems (CMS) on the market, powering a large percentage of websites on the internet today. For that reason, we are glad that our team includes a former contributor who helped create the official Joomla! docs on website security. We have also participated in various Joomla! […]
New Guide on How to Fix Hacked WordPress Sites
Our involvement in WordPress security has always been a core part of our mission here at Sucuri. We have teams who actively lend advice on WordPress support forums to hacked webmasters. We’ve taken a leadership role by creating sections of the official WordPress Codex relevant to security. Our company has attended over 75 WordCamps and… […]
Cleaning the Wp-Page Pharma Hack in WordPress
Pharma hacks are common website infections categorized under SEO spam. With pharma hacks, the attacker exploits vulnerable websites to distribute pharmaceutical advertisements to visitors. Symptoms of a pharma hack include embedded links and anchor text on pages or modified listings in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). These attacks most often target search engines like Google… […]
200k+ Parked/Expired Domains Used to Distribute Malicious Ads
Recently we wrote about domain renewal scams that used real paper letters to tricks site owners into transferring their domains and renewing them for 3-4x the normal price. However, this is not the only way to make money on expiring domains. Today, we’ll show you another questionable million-dollar business on expired domain names that hurts… […]
Website Malware – Curious .htaccess Conditional Redirect Case
I really enjoy when I see different types of conditional redirects on compromised sites. They are really hard to detect and always lead to interesting investigations. Take a look at this last one we identified: The curious aspect about it is the usage of a not so common .htaccess feature: variables. Most conditional injections rely […]
