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Video: Malware Hitching a Ride on WordPress

23

Aug

2011

In this week’s Websense Security Labs Video, Chris Astacio discusses a mass injection attack that is compromising a wide swath of WordPress sites through a vulnerability in TimThumb.php, a common module used in many WordPress themes. This widespread attack compromised tens of thousands of domains which led to a site hosting injected malicious code. After the […]

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Vulnerability in TimThumb WordPress Plugins – The Effects

16

Aug

2011

With the popularity of the WordPress blogging platform, security researchers here at WebsenseR Security Labs T are sure to sit up and take note of any reported zero-day threats affecting the platform itself or the plugins used by blog masters.Recently, we saw a post by Mark Maunder of technology company, Feedjit, where he noticed a […]

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The Philippine Bureau of Immigration is Compromised

09

Aug

2011

Websense Security Labs™ and the Websense ThreatSeeker® Network have detected malicious emails disguised as HSBC Notifications. A closer look at these emails, like the one you can see below, reveals that the link provided in the emails is a compromised URL belonging to the Philippine Bureau of Immigration. Clicking the link prompts the user to […]

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