Hacked Websites

WordPress Malware Disables Security Plugins to Avoid Detection

An alarm or monitoring system is a great tool that can be used to improve the security of a home…

3 months ago

Reflected XSS in WordPress Plugin Admin Pages

The administrative dashboard in WordPress is a pretty safe place: Only elevated users can access it. Exploiting a plugin’s admin…

3 months ago

Using assert() to Execute Malware in PHP 7 Environments

Initially released December 2015, PHP 7 introduced a multitude of performance and security improvements. Approximately 43.7% of websites across the…

4 months ago

COVID-19 Chloroquine Pharmaspam

A recent SiteCheck scan of an organization’s website showed an interesting pharmacy spam injection targeting COVID-19-related pages of websites. The…

4 months ago

CDN-Filestore Credit Card Stealer for Magento

During a website remediation, we recently discovered a new version of a Magento credit card stealer which sends all compromised…

4 months ago

String Concatenation: Obfuscation Techniques

While string concatenation has many valuable applications in development — such as making code more efficient or functions more effective…

4 months ago

PHP Binary Downloader

When possible, an attacker will want to avoid using specific functions in their PHP code that they know are more…

5 months ago

PHP Backdoor Obfuscated One Liner

In the past, I have explained how small one line PHP backdoors use obfuscation and strings of code in HTTP…

5 months ago

SEO Hacktool: Sitemap Generator

An XML sitemap is an important part of a website’s SEO and exists to help search engine crawlers index new…

5 months ago

Reverse String WooCommerce WordPress Credit Card Swiper

As 2020 continues to be the worst year in almost anybody’s lifetime, allow me to take this opportunity to stoke…

5 months ago