Recently we wrote about domain renewal scams that used real paper letters to tricks site owners into transferring their domains and renewing them for 3-4x the … [Read more...]
Nulled WordPress Themes: Malvertising and Black Hat SEO
If you have been following our blog for some time, you know that we regularly warn about risks associated with the use of third-party software on your site. A … [Read more...]
New Wave of the Test0.com/Test5.xyz Redirect Hack
Last week we described the hack that randomly redirected site visitors either to a parked test0 .com domain or to malicious sites via the default7 .com domain. … [Read more...]
Malicious Pastebin Replacement for jQuery
Website hackers are always changing tactics and borrowing ideas from each other. One of the challenges of website security is staying on top of those threats as … [Read more...]
SweetCAPTCHA Returns Hijacking Another Plugin
Yesterday we observed a strange short return of the SweetCaptcha plugin to WordPress.org repository. In June we reported that SweetCaptcha injected third-party … [Read more...]
SweetCAPTCHA Service Used to Distribute Adware
SweetCaptcha is a free CAPTCHA service that offers to match “sweet” images instead of making you recognize distorted digits and characters. It has integrations … [Read more...]
How Social Media Blacklisting Happens
In today’s world, we are all browsing websites online and sharing content on a multitude of social media platforms every day. Worldwide social media users … [Read more...]
AdSense Abused with Malvertising Campaign
Last weekend we noticed a large number of requests to scan websites for malware because they randomly redirected to some “magazine” websites. Most of them … [Read more...]
Malvertising on a Website Without Ads
When you first configure your website, whether it be WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, or any other flavor of the month, it is often in its purest state. Unless … [Read more...]
Spotting Malicious Injections in Otherwise Benign Code
Being able to spot suspicious code, and then determine whether it is benign or malicious is a very important skill for a security researcher. Every day we scan … [Read more...]
