Denis Sinegubko

Sucuri Blog

Last Friday, we reported on a hack that used a vulnerability in the popular WP GDPR Compliance plugin to change WordPress siteurl settings to erealitatea[.]net. At that time it was not clear who was behind the massive attack, since the erealitatea[.]net domain didn’t work and the infection simply broke the ... Read More

Earlier this week, we published a blog post about an ongoing massive malware campaign describing multiple infection vectors that it uses. This same week, we started detecting new modifications of the scripts injected by this attack. The general idea of the malware is the same, but the domain name and ... Read More

Last month, we shared information about yet another series of ongoing massive infections using multiple different vectors to inject malicious scripts into WordPress websites. Shortly after, the campaign changed the domain names used in its scripts. Now it mainly uses hotopponents[.]site and learningtoolkit[.]club. At the time of this writing, PublicWWW ... Read More

We have recently been notified of phishing emails that target WordPress users. The content informs site owners that their database requires an update and looks like this: The email’s appearance resembles that of a legitimate WordPress update message, however the content includes typos and uses an older messaging style. Another ... Read More

Recently, we came across another way to use files from GitHub repositories in malware infections. This time the infections weren’t via GitHub.io, raw.githubusercontent.com, or github.com/<user>/<repository>/raw/ URLs. The new trick involved a third-party service called RawGit that provides a CDN for GitHub files. This is the script that we found injected ... Read More

We are all familiar with the conventional domain name notation, where different levels are concatenated with the full stop character (period). E.g. “www.example.com”, where “www” is a subdomain, “example” is a second level domain, and “com” is a top level domain. However, very few know that there is also a ... Read More

After a series of critical Drupal vulnerabilities disclosed this spring, it’s not surprising to see a surge of massive Drupal infections like this one: Massive #Drupal infection that redirects to "Tech Support" scam via "js.localstorage[.]tk" https://t.co/30ZeLIyfza pic.twitter.com/ZCPMepM74k — Denis (@unmaskparasites) April 24, 2018 … with over a thousand compromised sites ... Read More

Last week, we described how an ongoing massive malware campaign began using Baidu search result links to redirect people to various ad and scam pages. It didn’t last long. Soon after the publication of that article, the bad actors changed the links to use compromised third-party sites and a couple ... Read More

The malware attack that began as an installation of malicious Injectbody/Injectscr WordPress plugins back in February has evolved since then. Some of the changes were documented asUpdates at the bottom of the original blog post, however, every week we see minor modifications in the way they obfuscate the scripts or ... Read More

A few days ago, we reported that hacked Magento sites had been pushing infostealing malware under the disguise of Flash player updates. In this post, we’ll reveal how this recent attack is related to an extremely hot topic – cryptocurrencies and cryptomining. Infostealer Analysis The malware binary files we found ... Read More