Web malware

Understanding Denial of Service and Brute Force Attacks – WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, vBulletin

Many are likely getting emails with the following subject header Large Distributed Brute Force WordPress Attack Underway – 40,000 Attacks Per Minute. Just this week we put out a post titled More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack. What’s the Big Deal? Remember life before social media? How quiet and […] more…

More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks are becoming a common trend on our blog lately, and that’s OK because it’s a very serious issue for every website owner. Today I want to talk about a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect amplification vectors. Any WordPress site with XML-RPC enabled […] more…

Joomla Security Updates – Version 2.5.19 and 3.2.3 Released

The Joomla team just released 2 security updates and pushed out the stable versions for Joomla 2.5.19 and 3.2.3. If you run your site on Joomla, you need to update and apply these patches ASAP to ensure that your site continues to run securely. If you are behind our CloudProxy Firewall, we will virtually patch […] more…

Highly Effective Joomla Backdoor with Small Profile

It feels like every day we’re finding gems, or what appear to be gems to us. We try to balance the use of the term, but I can’t lie, these are truly gems. The things they are doing, and by they I mean the attackers, are in some instance ingenious. I think you’ll agree that […] more…

Sucuri CloudProxy Website Firewall Improvements

If you are are a regular reader of our blog you probably know about our CloudProxy Website Firewall, it launched publicly a year ago. Since then, our team has been extremely focused on improving it, making it more effective and efficient for everyday website owners. If you are not familiar with CloudProxy, I highly recommend […] more…

SiteCheck Chrome Extension Now Available

Have you ever wondered if the websites you (or your family) visit contain code that is potentially harmful to you or your computer? If you are a Chrome user, then you’re in luck because we’ve made it much simpler for you to utilize SiteCheck, our website malware scanner. Whether you want to scan your own […] more…

Malicious iFrame Injections Host Payload on Tumblr

It’s always fun to watch malware developers using different techniques to code their creations. Sometimes it’s a matter of obfuscation, placement, injection, but this time it’s how they code it to be dynamic. I believe this is not the first one that uses this service, but it’s the first time I’m seeing it. The concept […] more…

PHP Backdoors: Hidden With Clever Use of Extract Function

When a site gets compromised, one thing we know for sure is that attackers love to leave malware that allows them access back to the site; this type of malware is called a backdoor. This type of malware was named this because it allows for remote control of a compromised website in a way that […] more…

Mysterious Zencart Redirects Leverage HTTP Headers

About a week ago we got an interesting Zencart case. Being that we don’t often write about Zencart we figured it’d be good time to share the case and details on what we found. The Scenario The site was redirecting to “www .promgirl .de”. I know, not very unique. Additionally, it was only affecting “www” […] more…

Not Just Pills or Payday Loans, It’s Essay SEO SPAM!

Remember back in school or college when you had to write pages and pages of long essays, but you had no time write them? Or maybe you were just too lazy? Yeah, good times. Well, it seems like some companies are trying to end this problem. They are offering services where clients pay them to […] more…

Joomla JomSocial Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The JomSocial team just released an update that fixes a very serious remote code execution vulnerability that affects any JomSocial version older than 3.1.0.4. From their hot-fix update: Yesterday we released version 3.1.0.4 which fixes two vulnerabilities. As a result of the first vulnerability, our own site was hacked. Thankfully, our security experts spotted the […] more…

Darkleech + Bitly.com = Insightful Statistics

This post is about how hackers abuse popular web services, and how this helps security researchers obtain interesting statistics about malware attacks. We, at Sucuri, work with infected websites every day. While we see some particular infections on one site or on multiple sites, we can’t accurately tell how many more sites out there are […] more…

Layer 7 DDOS – Blocking HTTP Flood Attacks

There are many types of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks that can affect and bring down a website, and they vary in complexity and size. The most well known attacks are the good old syn-flood, followed by the Layer 3/4 UDP and DNS amplification attacks. Today though, we’re going to spend a little time […] more…

Many Pieces of a Puzzle: Target, Neiman Marcus and Website Hacking

Corporations get hacked all the time. This is not news to anyone in the security business, but it has certainly received a lot of attention from those in the media over the last few weeks because of a couple of large-scale credit card events at both Target and Neiman Marcus. For the average person, website […] more…

New iFrame Injections Leverage PNG Image Metadata

We’re always trying to stay ahead of the latest trends, and today we caught a very interesting one that we have either been missing, or it’s new. We’ll just say it’s new.. We’re all familiar with the idea of iFrame Injections, right? Understanding an iFrame Injection The iFrame HTML tag is very standard today, it’s […] more…

Website Mesh Networks Distributing Malware

Can you imagine having the keys to a kingdom? How awesome would that be!! This is true in all domains, especialy when it comes to your website. This is almost like the holy grail of website attacks, gain access and do what you want with someone else’s pride and joy. We all know that once […] more…

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