Collaborate Disseminate
With the end of November comes the height of the holiday shopping season — specifically Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, which typically span the last calendar days of November into the first week of December.
As consumer behavior changes an… Continue reading Black Friday/Cyber Monday Ecommerce Security Threats
A web application firewall (WAF) is a great way to detect and filter incoming malicious requests before they can exploit website vulnerabilities and security flaws. While a WAF helps protect against threats over HTTP/HTTPS, the website can still be ha… Continue reading Why Reinfections Happen with a WAF
There has been a noted increase in the number of sextortion scams during 2019. These scam campaigns are commonly distributed through email, but any method of digital communication can be used to deliver the blackmail threat to the victim.
Blackmail At… Continue reading Fake French Police Sextortion Scam
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 market share in the overall CM… Continue reading Throwback Threat Thursday: JCE Vulnerability
There’s no doubt that the ubiquitous “forgot your password?” feature has helped many users who’ve misplaced their password or otherwise forgotten it, however—the tradeoff is that it can result in bugs that help bad actors… Continue reading An Indirect Way to Change cPanel Passwords
Single sign-on (SSO) allows users to sign into a single account (e.g Google) and access other services like YouTube or Gmail without authenticating with a separate username and password.
This feature also extends to third party services such as the po… Continue reading Fake SSO Used In Multi-Email Provider Phishing
We recently released an update to our Labs Knowledgebase for new plugins that had been targeted during the month of July 2019.
One of these newly targeted plugins was Advanced Booking Calendar — and it didn’t take long before we were recei… Continue reading Fake Human Verification Spam
A website owner recently reached out to us about a pop-up advertisement problem on their website which occurred any time someone clicked anywhere on the web page.
This irritating pop-up didn’t come from malware placed in the website’s file… Continue reading How Domain Expiration Can Potentially Disrupt Other Websites
Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen an increase in Troldesh ransomware using compromised websites as intermediary malware distributors.
The malware often uses a PHP file that acts as a delivery tool for downloading the host malware dropper:
hxxp… Continue reading Troldesh Ransomware Dropper
Hardening is the process of securing a website or system against known security weaknesses or potential issues to reduce the attack surface. The more functions or features a website has, the more potential points of entry an attacker has to leverage.
… Continue reading Reverse Hardening WordPress Config