CMS

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015
The official website of the popular vBulletin forum has been hacked

The website of the vBulletin forum software is down for maintenance following a data breach that exposed personal information of hundreds of thousands users On Sunday, the vBulletin official website has been hacked by an attacker using the moniker “Coldzer0.” The website has been defaced and the vBulletin forum was displaying the message “Hacked by Coldzer0.” At the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2015
Joomla SQL Injection Vulnerability exploited in the wild

Security experts at Sucuri reported a number of attacks exploiting a critical SQL injection flaw recently disclosed in the Joomla Content Management System. A few days ago, security experts disclosed a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the Joomla Content Management System (CVE-2015-7858), but as expected, threat actors in the wild are exploiting it in attacks against websites […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2015
Thousands of legitimate WordPress sites are serving malware

Sucuri has noticed a spike in the number of compromised websites as part of a malware campaign which relies on thousands of compromised WordPress sites. According to security experts at Sucuri, threat actors have hijacked thousands of websites running the WordPress CMS to serve malware. The technique is not new, legitimate compromised websites host malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2015
Hundreds million legit websites could serve Ransomware because of Script Injection compromise

Heimdal Security published an interesting post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve ransomware. Heimdal Security recently published an interesting blog post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve malware. The attackers compromise websites running […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2015
Joomla Helpdesk Pro flaws leave systems vulnerable to several attacks

The Outpost24 team has identified several vulnerabilities that affect Joomla HelpDesk Pro extension, the flaws can lead to remote code execution on servers. Kasper Bertelsen, a security researcher at Outpost24 has discovered a number of vulnerabilities in the Joomla Helpdesk Pro extension which can lead to remote code execution on servers. The Helpdesk Pro Joomla extension is developed […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2015
WordPress fixed a Zero Day a few hours after its disclosure

WordPress has just released a critical update to fix a serious XSS vulnerability that allows attackers to easily hijack websites based on the popular CMS. A cross-site scripting vulnerability is threatening WordPress content management system platforms worldwide. The popular CMS is used by nearly 186,700 of the top one million websites. An attacker can exploit the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2015
Drupal flaw allows reset password by crafting specific URLs

The Drupal team issued an update to fix a flaw that allows attackers reset password by crafting URLs under certain circumstances. Security experts discovered two critical vulnerabilities in Drupal CMS, one of them is an Access bypass (Password reset URLs) vulnerability that could be exploited to forge Password Reset URLs. “Password reset URLs can be forged […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2015
Exploiting Vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins, a cybercrime trend

A serious vulnerability in the FancyBox WordPress plugin makes it easy for a hacker to compromise any website based on the popular CMS. Last week SecurityWeek reported about another a zero-day flaw found in a WordPress plugin. This time, a new vulnerability found in the popular FancyBox for WordPress plugin could be exploited to inject […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2015
Sucuri firm discovered Backdoors relying on the Pastebin Service

The popular copy and paste website Pastebin has been leveraged by hackers to serve a backdoor to millions of users by exploiting flaws in a WordPress plugin. Malware authors have demonstrated a great inventiveness using any kind of platform and technique to control their malicious code. Security experts have detected botnet controlled via Gmail drafts, Evernote or […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
SoakSoak Malware infected more than 100,000 WordPress Websites

Google blacklisted over 11000 domains that were infected with this SoakSoak malware which redirect user traffic and download malicious payloads on targets. WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) with more than 70 million websites on the Internet. For this reason, it is under continuous attack by threat actors that try to […]