Thousands of WordPress sites has been hit by the SoakSoak attack lately. At this moment we know quit a lot about it. It uses the RevSlider vulnerability as a point of penetration. Then uploads a backdoor and infects all websites that share the same server account (so sites that don’t use the RevSlider plugin can […]
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RevSlider Vulnerability Leads To Massive WordPress SoakSoak Compromise
Yesterday we disclosed a large malware campaign targeting and compromising over 100,000 WordPress sites, and growing by the hour. It was named SoakSoak due to the first domain used in the malware redirection path (soaksoak.ru). After a bit more time investigating this issue, we were able to confirm that the attack vector is the RevSlider […]
RSS Reveals Malware Injections
There are multiple different ways to detect invisible malware on a website: You can scrutinize the HTML code of web pages. Use external scanners like SiteCheck or UnmaskParasites. Get alerts from anti-viruses or search engines (both in search results and via their Webmaster Tools). Try to open web pages with different User-Agents and check for […]
The Dangers of Hosted Scripts – Hacked jQuery Timers
Google blacklisted a client’s website claiming that malicious content was being displayed from forogozoropoto.2waky.com. A scan didn’t reveal anything suspicious. The next step was to check all third-party scripts on the website. Soon we found the offending script. It was hxxp://jquery.offput.ca/js/jquery.timers.js – a jQuery Timers plugin that was moderately popular 5-6 years ago. Right now, […]
Popular Brazilian Site “Porta dos Fundos” Hacked
A very well known Brazilian comedy site, “Porta dos Fundos,” was recently hacked and is pushing malware (drive-by-download) via a malicious Flash executable, as you can see from our Sitecheck results: SiteCheck Found Malware on Porta dos Fundos If you do not want the joke to be on you, do not visit this site (portadosfundos) […]
Manipulating WordPress Plugin Functions to Inject Malware
Most authors of website malware usually rely on the same tricks making it easy for malware researchers to spot obfuscated code, random files that don’t belong, and malicious lines injected at the top of a file. However, it can become difficult when the malware is buried deep within the lines of code on normal files.. […]
Malvertising Payload Targets Home Routers
A few weeks ago we wrote about compromised websites being used to attack your web routers at home by changing DNS settings. In that scenario the attackers embedded iFrames to do the heavy lifting, the short fall with this method is they require a website to inject the iFrame. As is often the case, tactics […]
WordPress Websites Continue to Get Hacked via MailPoet Plugin Vulnerability
The popular Mailpoet(wysija-newsletters) WordPress plugin had a serious file upload vulnerability a few months back, allowing an attacker to upload files to the vulnerable site. This issue was disclosed months ago, the MailPoet team patched it promptly. It though as many are still not getting the word, or blatantly not updating, because we are seeing […]
Phishing with help from Compromised WordPress Sites
We get thousands of spam and phishing emails daily. We use good spam filters (along with Gmail) and that greatly reduces the noise in our inbox. Today though, one slipped through the crack and showed up in my personal inbox: As I went to mark the email as Spam, I decided to hover over the […]
Website Security: A Case of SEO Poisoning
There are so many ways your website can be co-opted by hackers for many different reasons, targeting the value created via your SEO is highly attractive. It provides an attacker the opportunity to cheat the system by quickly benefiting from your raw traffic, your audience. In this post we will share details of a recent […]
