Tag: php
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Php.net compromised to serve malware
Researchers initially believed Google warning was a false positive. For a few days this week, the popular php.net website was serving malware to some of its visitors and was doing so in a stealthy way that initially confused researchers. There may be thousands and possibly millions of malicious websites on the Internet, but when you…
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Malicious PHP script hides bad stuff inside ‘white-space’
Spaces and tabs used to encode into binary. Researchers at Kaspersky have discovered a malicious PHP script that uses an inventive way to obfuscate its malicious behaviour. The script, found on a Polish online store, dynamically adds some remotely linked malicious code into the website’s HTML. What is probably more interesting is the way the…
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Over 1 per cent of search results include malicious sites
Google research paper confirms significant increase in number of malware-serving websites. Recent reports of increasing numbers of websites serving malicious content have been confirmed in a paper published by researchers from Google . The researchers report finding over three million URLs serving malware, as detected by at least one anti-virus program, with another three million…