Tag Archives: sucuri

More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are becoming a common trend on our blog lately, and that’s OK because it’s a very serious issue for every website owner. Today I want to talk about a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect amplification vectors. Any WordPress site with XML-RPC enabled […]

Sucuri CloudProxy Website Firewall Improvements

If you are are a regular reader of our blog, you probably know about our CloudProxy Website Firewall which launched publicly almost a year ago. Since then, our team has been extremely focused on improving it everyday. If you are not familiar with CloudProxy, I highly recommend reading some of the documentation and benefits of […]

SiteCheck Chrome Extension Now Available

Have you ever wondered if the websites you (or your family) visit contain code that is potentially harmful to you or your computer? If you are a Chrome user, then you’re in luck because we’ve made it much simpler for you to utilize SiteCheck, our website malware scanner. Whether you want to scan your own […]

Malicious iFrame Injections Host Payload on Tumblr

It’s always fun to watch malware developers using different techniques to code their creations. Sometimes it’s a matter of obfuscation, placement, injection, but this time it’s how they code it to be dynamic. I believe this is not the first one that uses this service, but it’s the first time I’m seeing it. Twitter and […]

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” […]