Important Vulnerability on Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress

Cronjob is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems, including Linux, that allows users to schedule and automate repetitive tasks. The name "cron" comes from the Greek word "chronos," which means time.

Infection of cron files is a serious threat to any Linux system that uses task automation. Hackers can use these files to regularly launch malicious programs and scripts.

Infection description

On Sep 15, we detected a malicious campaign. It was evident that the attackers we discovered were using phishing techniques to trick users into downloading a malicious binary file. They used a fake message on websites stating that a user has been blocked by Cloudflare. Meanwhile, infected websites getting the message would not necessarily even use Cloudflare services.

cPanel is the most secure hosting panel on the market, but without proper safety measures and settings, it can be vulnerable to attacks. The article goes over the following important questions:

What if we told you that ~15% of infection sources are database infections? If you have ever tried to clean up malicious injections (usually, thousands of them) from the database table, you know how much time and pain it would take. There's a lack of professional solutions to detect and clean up malware in the database automatically. We want to save your time and provide you with another top-notch solution to detect threats in the databases (in addition to our trailblazing Imunify file scanner). We call the solution “Malware Database Scanner” (MDS).