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Tales from of a base64 WordPress Hack, part 4: dissection
22 Mar 2012

Tales from of a base64 WordPress Hack, part 4: dissection

by Aaron | posted in: Tech | 1

Got hit again, briefly. Was able to recover very quickly thanks to the Git repos I had set up previously. I found a couple extra backdoors, using some alternate obfuscation methods. Instead of the typical eval(base64_decode(… the attacker instead took … Continued

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Tales from a base64 WordPress Hack, part 3: prevention
15 Mar 2012

Tales from a base64 WordPress Hack, part 3: prevention

by Aaron | posted in: Tech | 2

(See parts one and two for background information.). My sites are almost fully recovered. I’ve ditched the old fancy theme in favor of a more austere default theme that turns out to have some pretty nice features. I like minimalism … Continued

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Tales from a base64 wordpress hack, part 2: recovery
1 Mar 2012

Tales from a base64 wordpress hack, part 2: recovery

by Aaron | posted in: Tech | 7

Time for some investigative work. This post may get unapologetically technical. So I began by looking at my access logs from the day that the compromise occurred, I started with just a full browse of the log to look for … Continued

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Tales from a base64 wordpress hack, part 1: detection
1 Mar 2012

Tales from a base64 wordpress hack, part 1: detection

by Aaron | posted in: Tech | 7

So as I mentioned in my previous post, this blog was compromised earlier today, with the nefarious base64() hack. I’m still picking up the pieces, and viewing this as being pushed into finally switching to a new theme (I’ve been … Continued

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