Category: News
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Willysy Injection Attacks
Code injection attacks are now affecting millions of websites on the Internet. It is no longer an option to leave your website unprotected. We will be discussing the major outbreak of the “willysy.com” injection attacks in this article that at one time affected more than 100,000 websites. What is the Willysy attack? This particular code [...]
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Redirection Attacks
Malicious hackers are continuously changing the tactics they use to compromise websites. Over 6,600 new websites are hacked and blacklisted every day and begin distributing malware to potential customers and visitors, destroying their owner’s online reputation. One of the primary mechanisms used to infect visitors to a website is insertion of malicious code into a [...]
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Google Groups Hacked?
As of November 21, 2011, a large number of posts on Google groups seem to have been replicated to some adult chat rooms on Google Groups. This seems to be an attempt to game the search engine algorithm that Google uses and gain high search rankings for adult, spammy and potentially malicious websites. We have [...]
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nl.ai p,a,c,k,e,d Malware
Malicious hackers are continuing to find new ways to infect benign websites. A recent spate of attacks on WordPress powered sites proves this more strongly than ever. One popular method for infecting WordPress powered websites is to infect a file called “wp-settings.php”. The malware is then spread from this file to all subsequent requests for [...]
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Domain Chaining Attacks
Malicious hackers are constantly changing tactics in order to evade detection. One of the relatively new mechanisms that has been used to infect thousands of websites on the Internet is known as Domain Chaining. Domain Chaining is the act of using multiple malware infected domains to form a network that distributes exploit code to benign, [...]
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TimThumb Malware
The ability to integrate useful third party plugins into a CMS like WordPress provides website owners the ability to add new functionality to existing websites. Unfortunately, this feature comes at a price. Third party plugins often have security vulnerabilities that allow malicious hackers to break into websites and use them to distribute malware. We take [...]
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IFRAME-based Web-Malware
The IFRAME element, part of the HTML specification, continues to be a favorite attack vector for malicious hackers. Loading malicious payload by means of an IFRAME is an extremely easy and effective. Attackers infect and compromise websites and use them to infect other websites by loading malware from external locations, like other hacked sites. Think [...]
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Google Acknowledges Challenges in Detecting Web-Malware
Google announced today that the fight to detect web-based malware is far from over. The problem is growing and changing every day. Websites must be protected to prevent the spread of web-based malware. From the Article Google issued a new study on Wednesday detailing how it is becoming more difficult to identify malicious websites and [...]
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We’re at HostingCon!
StopTheHacker is at HostingCon 2011 in beautiful, sunny yet cool, San Diego! Come visit us at booth #623. If you’re at HostingCon, whether you are a customer or you would like to learn about our services, affiliate program, or how to partner, come by and say hi! We’re also giving away fee stuff including a [...]
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Scheduled Maintenance
Our service provider will be conducting scheduled database maintenance tomorrow, Wednesday, August 3rd, at approximately 6:00 AM PT. The upgrade will take approximately 30 minutes. This maintenance will improve performance of our websites. During this maintenance, some webpages at StopTheHacker.com may be unreachable or be served slower than usual. Logins to the customer panel and [...]
