New research has revealed that the threat group behind the cryptocurrency-stealing MasterMana botnet has grown increasingly sophisticated and is now trapping victims through spoofed login portals.
New findings from Prevailion’s Tailored Intelligence team indicate the rapid expansion of a series of supply chain attacks that transform installations of the popular WordPress content management system into hosts for a malicious advertising network. More than 20,000 web servers have been identified to be compromised in this campaign. WordPress has grown to become the backbone […]
Over 20,000 web servers (and who knows how many websites) have been compromised via trojanized WordPress themes to deliver malware through malicious ads, Prevailion researchers have discovered.
A threat actor that has infected more than 20,000 WordPress sites by running the same trick for at least three years: distributing trojanized versions of premium WordPress themes and plugins.
Authors:Danny Adamitis and Matt Thompson Overview Prevailion’s Tailored Intelligence team has followed an active supply chain attack that has been ongoing since late 2017, we named this campaign “PHPs Labyrinth.” In this operation, threat actors have been able to surreptitiously install malicious files into a large number of Premium WordPress Themes and Plugins. We assess […]
The mission of Evidence of Compromise is simple: empower companies to audit and continuously monitor the security of their supply chains to an unprecedented degree, with the possibility of even predicting future breaches based on this real-time intelligence. Current methods of cyber risk management, incident response and risk modeling have failed to keep up with the growing […]