During the past year, our Remediation department has seen a large increase in the number of fully spammed sites. The common factors are strangely named and unusually located favicon.ico files, along with the creation of “bak.bak” index files peppered around the website. In the majority of the cases, the pattern is similar regardless of the […]
Tag Archives: Website Security
The Cost of a Hacked Website – Survey
As part of our commitment to the website security community, we want to know the true impacts of a website compromise from the owner’s perspective. If you are a business that has dealt with any type of website attack, your participation in this six-minute survey will help us improve our services and support website owners […]
Magento Killer
A malicious PHP script, aptly given the name “Magento Killer” by its creator(s), has been found targeting Magento websites. While it doesn’t actually kill the Magento installation, it does allow the attacker to modify data in the core_config_data table of the targeted Magento database. $ConfKiller: Malicious Operations Used to Steal Payment Info During the initial […]
7 Things You Should Monitor in WordPress Activity Logs
WordPress activity logs can be helpful when troubleshooting or trying to identify a hack. In this article, you’ll learn about the seven things you should monitor in your WordPress logs. Over the years, WordPress has grown more complex. WordPress is used by people in a variety of environments, ranging from small shops to large enterprises. […]
Spam That Fits Your Website
Most of the time when we talk about spam, we think about mindless machines that create posts or comments to advertise a business related to drugs, accessories, or essays. But what if a hacker tried to convince your clients to click on malicious links based on the content of your website? A Customized Spam Campaign […]
WordPress Plugin WP Statistics: Unauthenticated Stored XSS Under Certain Configurations
The WordPress plugin WP Statistics, which has an active installation base of 500k users, has an unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerability on versions prior to 12.6.7. This vulnerability can only be exploited under certain configurations—the default settings are not vulnerable. Timeline 2019/06/26 – Initial contact to the developer. 2019/06/27 – Response from the developer, disclosure of […]
How to Know If You Are under DDoS Attack
Nowadays, DDoS is a pretty recognizable term. Though many webmasters don’t know exactly what a DDoS attack is—its method is very subtle to identify—they’re pretty sure it’s a bad thing. And that’s a correct assumption. In this article, we will focus on how to know if your website is under attack and how to protect […]
Fake Instagram Verification
Across various social media platforms there are verification checkmark symbols that appear near the name of the account’s page we view. For example, this verified account indicator seen from our our Twitter page: These verification checkmarks exist as a credibility indicator to help show authenticity and integrity to social media page visitors. In order to […]
Why is Your Website a Target? The SEO Value of a Website
Website security is what we eat, sleep, and breathe. It’s what we do best because we deal with hacked websites every single day, thousands of them. Among the various types and evolution in attack scenarios, one has remained the same for all these years—spam infections. A spam infection could be a serious problem for online […]
Malware vs Virus: What’s the Difference?
There appears to be a general misunderstanding among internet users about the difference between malware and viruses. The two terms are often used interchangeably and to an extent, this is perfectly fine. This article seeks to clarify the difference between them while helping to identify other common types of malware. We spend a lot of […]
