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… […]
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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 […]
My WordPress Website Was Hacked
Before you freak out, allow me to clarify. It was one of several honeypots we have running. The honeypots are spread across the most commonly employed hosting companies. From Virtual Private Servers (VPS) to shared environments, to managed environments. In most instances we pay and configure them like any other consumer would so that we […]
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” […]
