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• WordPress Continues to Fall Victim to Carding Attacks April 14, 2021
  Unsurprisingly, as WordPress continues to increase in popularity as an e-commerce platform, attackers continue to attempt to steal credit card information from unsuspecting clients. Currently, the WordPress plugin WooCommerce accounts for roughly a quarter of all online stores. Over recent years, attackers whose goal it is to fradulently obtain credit card information have mostly focused on e-commerce specific platforms such as Magento, PrestaShop and OpenCart (knowing […]
  Ben Martin
• How to Know If You Are Under DDoS Attack April 7, 2021
  Nowadays, the term DDoS probably raises the heart rate of most webmasters. Though many don’t know exactly what a DDoS attack is, they do know the effect: an extremely sluggish or shut-down website.  In this article, we’ll focus on how to know if your website is under attack and how to protect it.   Hopefully, we […]
  Stephen Johnston
• The Importance of Website Backups March 31, 2021
  Today is World Backup Day. This date was created to remind people of the importance of having backups set up for everything that matters. I am pretty sure your website falls into the category of precious digital assets.   Why are website backups important?  Imagine waking up in the morning to see that a couple of calls were missed and your email is […]
  Juliana Lewis
• PHP Repository Exploited by Hackers March 29, 2021
  The official PHP git repository, http://git.php.net/, was compromised this Sunday, March 28. An attacker was able to modify the PHP source code twice and inject a backdoor into it. Thankfully, both attempts were quickly detected and removed by the PHP team. Per a statement released in PHP’s internal mailing list, the current investigation believes the […]
  Antony Garand
• How Do Websites Get Hacked? March 25, 2021
  As much as the web has grown, surprisingly not a lot has changed in how websites get hacked. The most important thing you can do in keeping the web – and your own sites and visitors – safe is to understand these unchanging truths and hold them close to heart. Consider the Scale of Hacked […]
  Mike Martens
• Server Side Data Exfiltration via Telegram API March 18, 2021
  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 on the server level can be used for data exfiltration. What’s more, attackers may be able to accomplish this […]
  Cesar Anjos
• Magento 2 PHP Credit Card Skimmer Saves to JPG March 10, 2021
  Bad actors often leverage creative techniques to conceal malicious behaviour and harvest sensitive information from ecommerce websites. A recent investigation for a compromised Magento 2 website revealed a malicious injection that was capturing POST request data from site visitors. Located on the checkout page, it was found to encode captured data before saving it to […]
  Luke Leal
• Trojan Spyware and BEC Attacks March 4, 2021
  When it comes to an organization’s security, business email compromise (BEC) attacks are a big problem. One primary reason impacts are so significant is that attacks often use a human victim to authorize a fraudulent transaction to bypass existing security controls that would normally be used to prevent fraud. Another reason is that social engineering […]
  Luke Leal
• SQL Triggers in Website Backdoors February 25, 2021
  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 is met. What makes this especially problematic for website owners is that most malware cleanup guides focus […]
  Luke Leal
• UCEPROTECT: When RBLs Go Bad February 13, 2021
  Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBLs) can be a great tool in your security arsenal. You may not know you’re using them, but all email providers and company email servers leverage these services to verify whether servers and IP addresses are sending spam or other abusive content against a known list of offenders. These services use a […]
  Marc Kranat