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Threat actors are exploiting a CMS editor discontinued 14 years ago to compromise education and government entities worldwide to poison search results with malicious sites or scams. Search engine crawlers index the redirects and list them on Google Search results, making them an effective strategy for SEO poisoning campaigns, leveraging a trusted domain to rank malicious URLs higher for specific queries.
WordPress sites are being targeted by a previously unknown strain of Linux malware that exploits flaws in over two dozen plugins and themes to compromise vulnerable systems. "If sites use outdated versions of such add-ons, lacking crucial fixes, the targeted web pages are injected with malicious JavaScripts," Russian security vendor Doctor Web said in a report published last week.
A critical vulnerability in the Ghost CMS newsletter subscription system could allow external users to create newsletters or modify existing ones so that they contain malicious JavaScript. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed two security flaws in the JavaScript-based blogging platform known as Ghost, one of which could be abused to elevate privileges via specially crafted HTTP requests. Tracked as CVE-2022-41654, the authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to make unauthorized modifications to newsletter settings.
A rapidly evolving IoT malware dubbed "EnemyBot" is targeting content management systems, web servers and Android devices. The Alien lab research team study found four main sections of the malware.
A nascent Linux-based botnet named Enemybot has expanded its capabilities to include recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its arsenal to target web servers, Android devices, and content management systems. "The malware is rapidly adopting one-day vulnerabilities as part of its exploitation capabilities," AT&T Alien Labs said in a technical write-up published last week.
Sucuri Security's 2021 Website Threat Research Report has revealed that payment card skimmers are becoming more common in exploit kits affecting WordPress websites, and that attackers are spending more time customizing them to avoid detection. Current attack trends point to attackers targeting sites using Magento, OpenCart, PrestaShop, and those using the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress.
An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "Dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems. The cybersecurity firm's six-month-long investigation into the botnet reveals a complex operation managed by one command-and-control server and more than 60 surrogate servers that communicate with the bots to send new targets, allowing it to expand the size of the botnet via brute force attacks and installation of backdoors.
Security researchers believe that compromised credentials were used by hackers to access the content management system behind Donald Trump's campaign website. According to WordPress security solutions provider Defiant, which develops the Wordfence product, the hackers most likely used compromised credentials for access, supposedly targeting the underlying Expression Engine content management system, which is an alternative to WordPress.
In this article, we'll take a look at security vulnerabilities in the context of CMS platforms and the implications of SQL injection attacks on your website. Web app attacks, which are commonly executed via SQL injection, are down from last year but have been trending dangerously upward since February, with 2.1 million attacks rising steadily to 4.9 million attacks in June.