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Plesk Zero-Day Exploit Results in Compromised Webserver

07

Jun

2013

We’re tracking a zero-day exploit affecting a still unpatched vulnerability in Plesk that enables an attacker to fully control a vulnerable webserver. Plesk is made by Parallels and is a popular hosting control panel. This vulnerability means all websites hosted on systems that use Plesk are at risk. This spells trouble not only for web […]

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Citadel’s Defenses Breached

06

Jun

2013

On June 5, Microsoft announced that they had worked together with members of the financial services industry and the FBI to disrupt the operations of a banking Trojan horse program called Citadel. The takedown operation resulted in over 1,000 Citadel botnets being taken offline.Citadel is a banking Trojan that has been in existence since 2011. […]

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How to combat the brute force attacks on WordPress blogs

06

Jun

2013

We wrote 1.5 months ago in the article Botnet attack on WordPress about the ongoing distributed attack on the WordPress platform. WordPress has a default administrator called “admin” which can be changed to any user upon installation. According to various sources, the attack guesses up to 1000 most commonly-used passwords (see here examples). Now, we […]

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