WordPress Users Warned of Malware Masquerading as ionCube Files

Security researchers are warning WordPress and Joomla admins of a sneaky new malware strain masquerading as legitimate ionCube files. The malware, dubbed ionCube Malware, is used by cybercriminals to create backdoors on vulnerable websites allowing them to steal data or plant more malware. In the...

Rogue Wordpress Plugin Allowed Spam Injection

A popular WordPress plugin called Display Widgets running on 200,000 sites was removed from the official WordPress.org plugin repository after researchers discovered the plugin had a backdoor that was injecting spam ads into victims’ sites. According to researchers at Wordfence who publicly...

Reflected XSS Bug Patched in Popular WooCommerce WordPress Plugin

An extension of the WooCommerce WordPress plugin, used by 28 percent of all online stores, has been patched against a reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability. The vulnerability was found in the Product Vendors plugin, which allows an existing ecommerce site to support multiple vendors,...

Criminals Monetizing Attacks Against Unpatched WordPress Sites

Criminals have inevitably begun to attempt to monetize attacks against WordPress sites still vulnerable to a severe REST API endpoint vulnerability silently patched in the recent 4.7.2 security update. While more than one million websites have been defaced, researchers are now beginning to see so...

Symantec ActiveX control vulnerable to buffer overflow

Overview There is a buffer overflow in a component of Symantec's web-based Security Check. Description Symantec describes Security Check as "a free web-based tool that enables users to test their computer's exposure to a wide range of on-line threats. As part of running the check, users may insta...