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One of the themes commonly highlighted on this blog includes the many creative methods and techniques attackers employ to steal data from compromised websites. Credit card skimmers, credential and password hijackers, SQL injections, and even malware o… Continue reading Server Side Data Exfiltration via Telegram API
This past year has been a rollercoaster of emotions for many of us. Some were thriving while others were barely surviving. One takeaway we can be proud of as a community is how most of us had to be even more creative than usual to get through 2020… Wit… Continue reading Join us for free at the biggest online summit in the WordPress space
Over the past year, there’s been an increasing trend of WordPress malware using SQL triggers to hide malicious SQL queries within compromised databases. These queries inject an admin level user into the infected database whenever the trigger condition… Continue reading SQL Triggers in Website Backdoors
Aside from providing significant protection from a wide range of threats, the Sucuri WAF also acts as a CDN due to its caching capabilities and regional PoPs — often performing even better than dedicated CDNs based on recent tests.
CDNs can significan… Continue reading Optimizing Performance and Behavior with WordPress and the Sucuri WAF
WordPress is massively popular. Around every one in five sites on the Internet uses WordPress in some form. Be that to run a humble blog, or a multi-site Content Management System (CMS) or eCommerce site. As a result, it is no surprise that WordPress w… Continue reading WordPress security & hardening, the definitive guide
A detailed explanation of how attackers use Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) to hack WordPress websites and login credentials. This article is for educational purposes only. Like any other web application with a login form, WordPress submits your username and … Continue reading Hacking WordPress websites & stealing WordPress passwords
Identifying website backdoors is not always an easy task. Since a backdoors primary function is to conceal itself while providing unauthorized access, they are often developed using a variety of techniques that can make it challenging to detect.
For e… Continue reading Evaluating Cookies to Hide Backdoors
It’s not unusual to see website owners running things on a budget. Choosing a safe and reliable hosting company, buying a nice domain name, boosting posts on social media, and ranking on search engines — all this costs a lot of money. At the end of th… Continue reading SEO Spam Links in Nulled Plugins
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 called to investigate and clean up the site.
Old and abandoned plugins … Continue reading The Dangers of Using Abandoned Plugins & Themes
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 part stood out to me:
$config = wp_dbase_config_i… Continue reading Fake WordPress Functions Conceal assert() Backdoor