Since 2018, our team has been tracking an interesting type of website infection where the <title> tag of a hacked website is changed to Chinese text — changes which are clearly seen in the website’s search results and source code.…
Since September 2022, our research team has tracked a surge in WordPress malware redirecting website visitors to fake Q&A sites via ois[.]is. These malicious redirects appear to be designed to increase the authority of the attacker’s sites for search engines.…
When a website is hacked symptoms can sometimes include unexpected, unfamiliar and strangely located favicon or .ico files. Other symptoms might include: ”This site may be hacked” warnings Strange redirects to spam websites Blocklisting by Google, Bing and other search…
Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote scanners may not provide as comprehensive of a scan as server-side scanners, they allow users to instantly identify malicious…
HTTP 302 codes are a valuable way to redirect website users to a different URL temporarily. However,…
Did you try to visit your website in Firefox only to be met by a message telling…
Some weeks ago a critical unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in old, unpatched versions of the wp-user-avatar plugin. It also allows for arbitrary file uploads, which is where we have been seeing the infections start. This plugin has over…
Malicious redirect is a type of hack where website visitors are automatically redirected to some third-party website: usually it’s some malicious resource, scam site or a commercial site that buys traffic from cyber criminals (e.g. counterfeit drugs or replica merchandise).…