Payday Loan Spam affecting Thousands of Sites
One of the most important metrics used by search engines to rank a site is the number of link backs that it has. The more links a site has for a specific keyword, the higher it will rank when someone searches for it. So if a site has a lot of links back for a […] more…From Alarming to Familiar: Different Social Engineering Techniques
In the course of our threat research, we’ve encountered different types of social engineering lures that aim to trigger different emotions such as fear and happiness. These lures are often effective, as we’ve seen happen in several incidents in the past. However, they are also easily recognizable as they often use a common theme, be […] more…Malware Redirection with a Delay
You visit a site and it looks good and clean. However, if you keep the page open, after maybe 20-30 seconds, you get redirected to an affiliate page for cassino or pharma site. What is going on? We call those delayed redirections and they are becoming a lot more common. Instead of injecting malware or […] more…DaRK DDoSseR Leads to Gh0st RAT
The malware BKDR_ADDNEW, better known as “DaRK DDoSseR” in the underground, is a tool that provides distributed denial of service (DDOS) capability combined with password stealing functionality. The tool costs $30 and has been available for several years. Recently, our friends at FireEye reported seeing computers that had been compromised by BKDR_ADDNEW and later updated […] more…Dealing with WordPress Malware
A few months back I contributed to a post with Smashing Magazine on the top 4 WordPress Infections, it was released yesterday, and it couldn’t have been at a better time. If any one attended WordCamp Las Vegas you might even find some similarities. Fortunately in the process of preparing for the event and working […] more…LilyJade Version 2.0 – Malicious Browser Extension
In Market, there are different web browsers available, in order to gain the popularity and more usability of these browsers among the users requires some extra features apart from just merely being used to browse web. In hence, they introduce some extra feature to their browsers one among that is the browser plug-in which the […] more…Ask Sucuri: Talk More About Web-Based Malware
If you have any questions about malware, blacklisting, or security in general, send it to us: contact@sucuri.net and we will answer here. For all the “Ask Aucuri” answers, go here. Question: My site got hacked and it is distributing malware. Why would anyone do that to me? I don’t know much about viruses on web […] more…More information
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