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We were recently alerted to the reports of an attack leveraging a vulnerability in TimThumb – a PHP script for cropping, zooming, and resizing Web images (.JPG,.PNG, .GIF) and used as an add-on script on WordPress. The said vulnerability enables cybercriminals to perform local file insertion. When successfully exploited, it inserts a PHP script, which […]

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Things have been pretty busy lately as far as web attacks ago. Over the past few weeks we have seen several large spikes of threat detections, corresponding to various waves of mass defacement attacks against legitimate web sites. Pages on the hacked sites are typically injected with iframes (or scripts that add iframes), which explains […]

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A few days ago we posted about a series of attacks that were happening against WordPress sites running the vulnerable timthumb.php script. We detected thousands of sites compromised with it and now are are seeing a small change in the malware. Instead of superpuperdomain.com, the malware is now pointing to a remote javascript from superpuperdomain2.com […]

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