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The Dangers of Using Abandoned Plugins & Themes

The Dangers of Using Abandoned Plugins & Themes

| | Black Hat Tactics, Hacked Websites, Redirects, Security Education, Sucuri Labs, Website Security, WordPress Plugins and Themes, wordpress security
It’s not very often that we see abandoned components being used on a website — but when we do, it’s most often because the website was exhibiting malware-like behavior and we were ...
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Why You Should Monitor Your Website

Why You Should Monitor Your Website

| | Black Hat Tactics, Hacked Websites, Malware, Redirects, Sucuri Labs, Website Backdoor, Website Monitoring, Website Security
In an effort to maintain unauthorized access or profit off a website’s environment long after an initial compromise, attackers commonly leverage a variety of different techniques and tactics. These techniques range from ...
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Malware Dropper Takes Advantage of COVID-19 Pandemic

Malware Dropper Takes Advantage of COVID-19 Pandemic

| | Black Hat Tactics, Hacked Websites, Labs Note, Malware, Sucuri Labs, Website Malware Infections, Website Security
Since April, our team has been tracking the spread of a PHP malware dropper. It’s impacting unsuspecting victims who thought they were downloading a mapping software to monitor the spread of the ...
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Fake WordPress Functions Conceal assert() Backdoor

| | Black Hat Tactics, Ecommerce Security, Hacked Websites, Labs Note, Malware, Sucuri Labs, Website Backdoor, Website Malware Infections, Website Security, wordpress security
A few weeks ago, I was manually inspecting some files on a compromised website. While checking on a specific WooCommerce file, I noticed something interesting. Among 246 other lines, this very specific ...
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Obfuscation Techniques in MARIJUANA Shell “Bypass”

Obfuscation Techniques in MARIJUANA Shell “Bypass”

| | Black Hat Tactics, Hacked Websites, Labs Note, Malware, Security Education, Sucuri Labs, Website Backdoor, Website Malware Infections, Website Security
Attackers are always trying to come up with new ways to evade detection from the wide range of security controls available for web applications. This also extends to malware like PHP shells, ...
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“Free” Symchanger Malware Tricks Users Into Installing Backdoor

“Free” Symchanger Malware Tricks Users Into Installing Backdoor

| | Black Hat Tactics, Hacked Websites, Malware, Sucuri Labs, Website Backdoor, Website Malware Infections, Website Security
In a previous post, I discussed how attackers can trick website owners into installing malware onto a website — granting the attacker the same unauthorized access as if they had exploited a ...
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Hidden SEO Spam Link Injections on WordPress Sites

Hidden SEO Spam Link Injections on WordPress Sites

| | Black Hat Tactics, Hacked Websites, Labs Note, Malware, SEO spam, Sucuri Labs, Website Security, wordpress security
Often when a website is injected with SEO spam, the owner is completely unaware of the issue until they begin to receive warnings from search engines or blacklists. This is by design ...
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PrestaShop SuperAdmin Injector and Login Stealer

PrestaShop SuperAdmin Injector and Login Stealer

| | Black Hat Tactics, Ecommerce Security, Hacked Websites, Labs Note, Malware, Sucuri Labs, Website Malware Infections, Website Security
According to W3Tech’s data, PrestaShop is among the most popular CMS choices for existing ecommerce websites, so it should come as no surprise that malware has been created to specifically target these ...
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Evasive Maneuvers in Data Stealing Gateways

| | Black Hat Tactics, Hacked Websites, Labs Note, Malware, Redirects, Security Education, Sucuri Labs, Website Malware Infections, Website Security
We have already shared examples of many kinds of malware that rely on an external gateway to receive or return data, such as different malware payloads. During a recent investigation, we came ...
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Another Credit Card Stealer That Pretends to Be Sucuri

Another Credit Card Stealer That Pretends to Be Sucuri

| | Black Hat Tactics, Credit Card Stealers, Ecommerce Security, Hacked Websites, Labs Note, Magento Security, Malware, Sucuri Labs, Website Malware Infections, Website Security
During a routine investigation, we found yet another web skimmer that pretends to be related to Sucuri. One of our Remediation Analysts, Liam Smith, found the following code injected into the database ...
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