Education is essential for defending your website against emerging threats. That’s why we are thrilled to share our 2023 Hacked Website & Malware Threat Report. Disseminating this information to the community helps educate website owners about the latest trends and threats. This year, we’ve included new insights to highlight the most prevalent tactics and techniques […]
Tag Archives: Webserver Infections
Web Shells: Types, Mitigation & Removal
Web shells are malicious scripts that give attackers persistent access to compromised web servers, enabling them to execute commands and control the server remotely. These scripts exploit vulnerabilities like SQL injection, remote file inclusion (RFI), and cross-site scripting (XSS) to gain entry. Once deployed, web shells allow attackers to manipulate the server, leading to data […]
Detecting and Mitigating a Phishing Threat: “Greatness”
Emerging in 2022, a phishing tool known as Greatness has caught the attention of our research team due to its coordinated efforts to breach Microsoft 365 accounts and presence on compromised websites. More disturbingly, it has shown effectiveness against multi-factor authentication (MFA), elevating the potential threat level. Identified as a Phishing as a Service (PhaaS) […]
Vulnerabilities Digest: June 2020
Highlights for June 2020 Cross site scripting is still the most common vulnerability in WordPress Plugins. Bad actors are taking advantage of the lack of restrictions in critical functions and issues surrounding user input data sanitization. Massive local file inclusion (LFI) attempts have been discovered attempting to harvest WordPress and Magento credentials. Attackers continue to […]
Evasion Tactics in Hybrid Credit Card Skimmers
The most common type of Magento credit card stealing malware is client-side JavaScript that grabs data entered in a checkout form and sends it to a third-party server controlled by the attackers. Though popular with bad actors, one of the drawbacks of this approach is that it’s possible to track requests to suspicious servers if […]
WordPress Malware Collects Sensitive WooCommerce Data
During a recent investigation, our team found malicious code that reveals how attackers are performing reconnaissance to identify if sites are actively using WooCommerce in a compromised hosting environment. These compromised websites are victims of the ongoing wave of exploits against vulnerable WordPress plugins. Why are WooCommerce websites being targeted? WooCommerce is a powerful WordPress […]
PinnacleCart Server-Side Skimmers and Backdoors
While open-source ecommerce platforms are the most common targets for web skimmers, hackers also target paid-for software — especially if it’s used on high-profile online stores with large user-bases. This time, our analysts Kara Federow and Keith Petkus found malware on a website powered by PinnacleCart, a webstore solution used by a large number of […]
WordPress Database Brute Force and Backdoors
We regularly talk about brute force attacks on WordPress sites and explain why WordPress credentials should always be unique, complex, and hard to guess. However, the WordPress login is not the only point of entry that hackers use to break into sites. Since the WordPress CMS stores most of its settings in a database, attackers […]
What is Cross-Site Contamination?
How many websites do you currently have on your server? If the answer is something along the lines of, “One that I really care about, some older ones that I don’t really use, and maybe a dev site that could be live…” then you might want to familiarize yourself with the concept of cross-site contamination. […]
Vulnerable Versions of Adminer as a Universal Infection Vector
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 […]
