Hackers targeting web hosts customer accounts.
Companies such as web hosts, registrars and CDNs have become a prime target for hackers. Because they host your DNS, hackers can alter them and reroute…
Category: Malware
Malicious plugins hosted in the WordPress Plugin repository.
While cleaning-up an infected server today, I came across this plugin: Breadcrumb shortcode (slug: breadcrumbs-ez). It was downloaded from the WordPress official repository but it had…
Fake WordPress plugin repository distributing malware.
We mentioned a few weeks ago fake WordPress websites used by hackers to distribute malware via malicious plugins installed on their victims blog. Hackers have lately…
Fake wordpress-update.com site used to distribute malware via malicious plugins.
In recent days, we have worked on several infected WordPress websites that all had the particularity of having the same malicious plugin installed: Hackers gained access…