Hosting providers suffer on a daily basis from the consequences of the many security vulnerabilities found in commonly used CMS’s such as WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Patchman Patchman detects these vulnerabilities and is able to safely patch them without assistance from your customer. Because of our unique approach, you can also be rest assured that … Read more
You can sometimes see this error ModSecurity log file: –b2b99b07-H– Message: Multipart parsing error (init): Multipart: Invalid boundary in C-T (characters). POST Payload Typically payload looks below, which cause that error –b2b99b07-B– POST /index.php HTTP/1.0 Host: malware.expert Accept: */* Referer: http://malware.expert/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) Firefox/3.5.0 Content-Length: 389 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=(UploadBoundary) Problem … Read more
In this article we show how to find and disable ModSecurity rule that might be causing 406 errors on your websites on either your VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server. The rules that ModSecurity uses can help block potential attack attempts from malicious users, but sometimes it can also block legitimate requests, and knowing … Read more
In this article I’m going to discuss how to find and Whitelist specific ModSecurity rules that might be causing 406 errors on your websites on either your VPS (Virtual Private Server) or dedicated server. The rules that ModSecurity uses can help block potential attack attempts from malicious users upload malware to servers, but sometimes it … Read more
Today we looked server’s logs and we found very active Bot network that trying use old malware and upload more PHP code files to servers. Malware files If we look access logs, we found many files which tried access, but they not are normal WordPress, Joomla etc. files. /Abbrevsprl.php /administrator/administrator.php /administrator/dbconfig.php /administrator/includes/readmy.php /administrator/webconfig.txt.php /al277.php /authenticating.php … Read more
We are see remote command execution (RCE) attempts trying to exploit the latest WordPress API Vulnerability. The attackers trying to exploit sites that have plugins like the Insert PHP, Exec-PHP and similar installed plugins. These plugins, allow users to insert PHP code directly into the posts as a way to make customizations easier. Coupled with … Read more
A Web Application Firewall protects Web servers from malicious traffic and blocks attempts to compromise the system. While proxies generally protect clients, WAFs protect servers. A WAF is deployed to protect a specific web application or set of web applications. A WAF can be considered a reverse proxy. WAFs may come in the form of … Read more
The following options are possible (GUI/CLI): via Plesk GUI go to Home > Tools & Settings > Updates and Upgrades: Add/Remove Components: and under the web hosting settings select ModSecurity: Installed: via CLI execute plesk installer CLI Installer Select Go forward (F) Select Go forward (F) and under Select the components you want to install … Read more
When modsecurity detects an event has occurred that it has been instructed to log, it will generate an audit log entry, and if properly configured an audit log event file. The audit log event file is the most useful piece of information the system will collect, so its vital modsecurity be setup correctly to capture … Read more
Introduction ModSecurity is an open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) for Apache, Nginx and IIS web server. This application layer firewall is developed by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs and released under Apache License 2.0. ModSecurity protects websites from hackers by using a set of regular expression rules to filter out commonly known exploits, it allows HTTP traffic monitoring, … Read more