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 […]
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Bash – ShellShocker – Attacks Increase in the Wild – Day 1
The Bash ShellShocker vulnerability was first disclosed to the public yesterday, 2014/Sep/24. Just a few hours after the initial release, we started to see a few scans looking for vulnerable servers. Our Website Firewall (CloudProxy) had already virtually patched the vulnerability via it’s Zero Day response mechanism. This allowed us to to create sinkholes to […]
Bash Vulnerability – Shell Shock – Thousands of cPanel Sites are High Risk
The team behind the Bash project (the most common shell used on Linux) recently issued a patch for a serious vulnerability that could allow for remote command execution on servers running the vulnerable bash versions. Wait, remote command execution on bash? You are likely asking yourself, “How can someone remotely execute commands on a local […]
Security Advisory – Hikashop Extension for Joomla!
Advisory for: Hikashop for Joomla! Security Risk: High (DREAD score : 7/10) Vulnerability: Object Injection / Remote Code Execution Updated Version: 2.3.2 In a routine audit of our Website Firewall we discovered a serious vulnerability within the Hikashop ecommerce product for Joomla! allowing remote code execution on the vulnerable website[s]. What are the risks? This […]
