March 3, 2023, 4:35 p.m. | Ben Martin

Sucuri Blog blog.sucuri.net

We recently had a new client come to us with a rather peculiar issue on their WordPress website: They were receiving unwanted popup advertisements but only when the website was accessed through links posted on FaceBook. Initially we thought that this must be a rogue ad coming through an otherwise legitimate advertising network but it turned out to be a very well crafted and hidden spam injection.


In this post we will review this infection, outline the steps we took …

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