Ads are everywhere. They generate revenue for site owners and can present related content to the website being visited. As detailed in previous articles, bad actors often take advantage of that functionality. Quite often rogue ad networks will be used to pull down malicious content, but recently we’ve seen a campaign where the threat actors […]
Tag Archives: Redirects
Indonesian Gambling Redirect Hiding in Plain Sight
Many pieces of malware found over the years have been complex and difficult to find. Attackers often obfuscate their code to make it harder to track. Some pieces of malware require extensive reviews to uncover. But in other instances, that is not always the case. Threat actors find new ways to inject malware to avoid […]
SiteCheck Remote Website Scanner — Mid-Year 2024 Report
Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote website scanners may not provide as comprehensive of a scan as server-side scanners, they allow users to instantly identify malicious code and detect security issues on their website without installing any software or applications. […]
Mal.Metrica Redirects Users to Scam Sites
One of our analysts recently identified a new Mal.Metrica redirect scam on compromised websites, but one that requires a little bit of effort on the part of the victim. It’s another lesson for web users to be careful what they click on, and to be wary of anything suspicious that pops up in their browser […]
Thousands of Sites with Popup Builder Compromised by Balada Injector
On December 11, 2023 WPScan published Marc Montpas’ research on the stored XSS vulnerability in the popular Popup Builder plugin (200,000+ active installation) that was fixed in version 4.2.3. A couple of days later, on December 13th, the Balada Injector campaign started infecting websites with older versions of the Popup Builder. The attack used a […]
How to Fix “Not Secure” Warnings and SSL Issues in WordPress (8 Steps)
If you own a WordPress website and ever encountered the “Not Secure” warning, you might have worried that visitors would perceive your site as spam or fraudulent. Not only does this warning impact user trust, but it can also affect your site’s SEO because search engines like Google flag sites without an HTTPS (HyperText Transfer […]
Bogus URL Shorteners Go Mobile-Only in AdSense Fraud Campaign
Since September 2022, our team has been tracking a bogus URL shortener redirect campaign that started with just a single domain: ois[.]is. By the beginning of 2023, this malware campaign had expanded to over a hundred domain names to redirect traffic to low quality Q&A sites and monetize traffic via Google AdSense. In fact, since […]
From Google DNS to Tech Support Scam Sites: Unmasking the Malware Trail
A vast majority of website malware employ the ever-familiar HTTP/HTTPS protocols for its malicious activities. But, we also periodically confront more interesting hybrid malware leveraging various other internet protocols. For example, malware sending email spam, DDoS tools creating floods of UDP packets, bruteforce tools trying to guess SSH credentials, phishing and credit card skimming malware […]
SiteCheck Remote Website Scanner — Mid-Year 2023 Report
Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote scanners may not provide as comprehensive of a scan as server-side scanners, they allow users to instantly identify malicious code and detect security issues on their website without installing any software or applications. Our […]
What is Error 404? How to Fix & Troubleshoot 404’s On Your Site
The notorious Error 404 Not Found stands firmly at the top of the list of most common website issues. Encountering this HTTP status code indicates that your requested page is nowhere to be found on the server. A 404 Page Not Found error most typically occurs when a page or resource can’t be tracked down […]
