Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019

Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019

The threat landscape for website owners is constantly shifting on a regular basis — and it’s becoming increasingly more complex. As attackers continue to develop tools and find new vulnerabilities to massively ...
Vulnerable Versions of Adminer as a Universal Infection Vector

Vulnerable Versions of Adminer as a Universal Infection Vector

This past week, we’ve been monitoring a new wave of website infections mostly impacting WordPress and Magento websites. We found that hackers have been injecting scripts from scripts.trasnaltemyrecords[.]com into multiple files and ...
Throwback Threat Thursday: JCE Vulnerability

Throwback Threat Thursday: JCE Vulnerability

Despite WordPress’ market share completely overshadowing other CMS’, Joomla (previously known as Mambo) has still managed to retain its position as the second most popular CMS. In fact, even with a decreasing ...
Fake UpdraftPlus Plugins

Fake UpdraftPlus Plugins

We often find various fake WordPress plugins installed by hackers during website cleanups. Recently, we’ve noticed a new wave of infections that install fake plugins with backdoor functionality. Malicious Plugins Sourced from ...

Cryptominers & Backdoors Found in Fake Plugins

When cleaning websites, we regularly find phishing pages, malicious code injected into files, and SEO spam. However, over the past couple of months we’ve also noticed a considerable increase in the number ...

The Hacker Returns: A Backdoor Edition

Once an attacker manages to hack and gain access to a target site or system, they typically work hard to maintain their access—as long as it can to help them achieve their ...
TimThumb Attacks: The Scale of Legacy Malware Infections

TimThumb Attacks: The Scale of Legacy Malware Infections

These days, we consider a malware campaign massive if it affects a couple thousand websites. However, back in the day when Sucuri first started its operations, the scale of infections was significantly ...
Neapolitan Backdoor Injection

Neapolitan Backdoor Injection

Most of us are familiar with Neapolitan ice cream: a flavour whose distinguishing characteristic is not one single flavour but several. Many also know it as the ice cream which your roommate ...
Reset Email Account Passwords after Website Infection: Follow Up

Reset Email Account Passwords after Website Infection: Follow Up

In a previous analysis of a malicious file, we demonstrated why you should always update your email account passwords after a security compromise. The information security threat landscape is always changing. Likewise, ...
The Strange Case of the Malicious Favicon

The Strange Case of the Malicious Favicon

During the past year, our Remediation department has seen a large increase in the number of fully spammed sites. The common factors are strangely named and unusually located favicon.ico files, along with ...