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Cyber-crime, Malware

Fake DDoS protection pages are delivering malware!

August 22, 2022

Via: Help Net Security

Malware peddlers are exploiting users’ familiarity with and inherent trust in DDoS protection pages to make them download and run malware on their computer, Sucuri researchers have warned. Hidden malware and fake DDoS protection DDoS protection pages have become so […]


Vulnerabilities

Critical vulnerability in Drupal References Module opens 120,000 Sites to hack

April 20, 2017

Via: Security Affairs

A critical vulnerability affects the Drupal References module that is used by hundreds of thousands of websites using the popular CMS. The Drupal security team has discovered a critical vulnerability in a third-party module named References. The Drupal team published a Security advisory on April […]


Access control

IPv6 servers beat IPv4 in security — for now

October 4, 2016

Via: InfoWorld

Security company Sucuri CTO Daniel Cid recently conducted a small experiment: How long would it take for attackers brute-forcing SSH accounts to compromise IPv4 and IPv6 servers? While the IPv4 servers fell within minutes — no surprise there — not a […]


Cyber warfare

Many Web Attacks Come From United States: Sucuri

July 29, 2016

Via: Security Week

Blocking traffic from certain countries or regions might not be a very efficient way of defending against web attacks, according to an analysis conducted by web security firm Sucuri. Sucuri has analyzed metadata from 30 days of traffic and more […]


Malware

Nuclear EK Leveraged In Large WordPress Compromise Campaign

February 4, 2016

Via: Malwarebytes

Security company Sucuri recently noted a spike in WordPress infections, with a large number of sites getting injected with the same malicious scripts. Hacked websites are often used to host spam or perform malicious redirections to exploit kits and this case is […]


Malware

Magento sites targeted by Neutrino exploit kit

October 19, 2015

Via: malware

Some websites running the e-commerce platform #magento appear to have been infected with code that directs victims to the #neutrino #exploit kit. It’s not exactly clear how the Magento sites were infected, wrote Denis Sinegubko, a senior #malware researcher with […]


Threats & Malware

WordPress plugin vulnerabilities affect over 20 million downloads

July 17, 2014

Via: threats-and-malware

Since May, security firm Sucuri has discovered critical WordPress plugin vulnerabilities affecting four plugins that have nearly 20 million downloads.