From darkreading.com
Millions of websites have been compromised, but the most likely malware isn’t cyptomining: it’s quietly stealing files and redirecting traffic, a new Sitelock report shows.
Websites suffer an average of 62 serious attack threats per day — an average of 376 million per day, according to a new study of more than 6 million websites worldwide.
“Even though the numbers seems a little small, 62 attacks is still a pretty big number,” says Monique Becenti, product and channel marketing specialist at SiteLock, which published the study in a report today.
Those attacks weren’t concentrated in ransomware and cryptomining malware, but in such “classic” techniques as backdoors, shells, and JavaScript files. The JavaScript attacks are notable because they tend not to directly attack the website, but to hijack visitor traffic and send them to alternate, illegitimate destinations.
The report points out both the type of stealth attack seen in 2018 and the risk factors for compromise, factors that boil down to site complexity, site popularity, and site composition, or the software or CMS used to build the site.