Tweet Week: Feb 1-7, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
.htaccess hack, attack against PHP sites, IE vulnerability, … »»
Tweet Week: Jan 25-31, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Bety.php Hack. Part 2. Black Hats in Action.
This is the second article about the hacker attack against osCommerce-powered sites. In the first part, you can find the description of the attack along with detection and clean-up instructions. Now I want to show you what exactly hackers did and how they managed to poison Google search results.
The main goal is to demystify hackers and encourage webmasters to explore their own sites. The more you know about hackers, the better you’ll be at protecting your site against their attacks.
This post is based on the files and access logs of three compromised sites that I received from a webmaster who contacted me a couple of weeks ago.
Quick facts
- The attack uses unpatched vulnerability in osCommerce 2.2 that allows an attacker to upload arbitrary files to compromised servers using a security hole in file_manager.php.
- Only one of the three sites actually uses osCommerse (site-1).The rest two sites had been hacked using access gained via the hacked site-1.
Tweet Week: Jan 18-24, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
IE patch, updates on attacks, Google quiz, Firefox 3.6, UP testimonials »»
Bety.php – osCommerce Hack. Part 1.
About a week ago I received a very insightful email from one webmaster where he described a recent attack that his site was subject to and showed how Google’s Webmaster Tools helped him notice the hack.
Tweet Week: Jan 11-17, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Round up of Unmask Parasites Improvements
In the last couple of months of 2009 I quitely rolled out some improvements to Unmask Parasites. I couldn’t find enough time to blog about them since there always had been some nasty malware attack that I needed to investigate and write about here. Finally, I decided that the new year beginning is the proper time to round up some improvements and new features of the last year.
Round up »»
Tweet Week: Jan 4-10, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Adobe Reader updates, Adv. WordPress Security, LGPL malscripts »»
Tweet Week: Dec 28, 2009 – Jan 3, 2010
Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.
Dec 28, 2009
LeaseWeb seems to have removed malicious servers from its network after my blog post about the “GNU GPL” scripts. (OVH still hosts hackers)
Dec 30, 2009
Good Guys Bring Down the Mega-D Botnet – respect @FireEye !
Jan 2, 2010
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Evict Hackers
Last week, I wrote about the latest mutation of the website hack that has been active (mostly in form of iframe injection) throughout this year. I mentioned that for some reason all malicious domain names had been mapped to IP addresses on LeaseWeb and OVH networks. Moreover, LeaseWeb hosted a central site mdvhost .com (hidden behind reverse-proxies) for at least 3 months.
LeaseWeb reaction »»
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Occasional posts from the developer of
Unmask Parasites about things that hackers already know and site owners should know (if they don't want to be victims).
Exploit reviews, security tips, and all that jazz.
