Website Security
The 10 Most Common Website Security Attacks (and How to Protect Yourself)
Every website on the Internet is somewhat vulnerable to security attacks. The threats range from human errors to sophisticated attacks by coordinated cyber criminals. According to the Data Breach Investigations Report by ...
3 Web Third-Party Related Events You Don’t Want to Miss From October-December 2020
With COVID-19 still very much amongst us, online activity is continuing its global ascend. The security implications are also clear. Third-party applications running on websites are creating numerous risks and blind-spots that ...
The Dangers of Using Abandoned Plugins & Themes
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 ...
Why You Should Monitor Your Website
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 ...
Malware Dropper Takes Advantage of COVID-19 Pandemic
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 ...
Fake WordPress Functions Conceal assert() Backdoor
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 ...
Obfuscation Techniques in MARIJUANA Shell “Bypass”
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, ...
“Free” Symchanger Malware Tricks Users Into Installing Backdoor
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 ...
Hackers Love Expired Domains
Sometimes, website owners no longer want to own a domain name and they allow it to expire without attempting to renew it. This happens all the time and is totally normal, but ...
Hidden SEO Spam Link Injections on WordPress Sites
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 ...
