Net Shaker

Cybersalt's mission is to make the Internet a better place for you and for others.

The Net Shaker is a sprinkling of internet related news that we think our clients and visitors either need to know or will enjoy reading. It is also where the latest news about our company can be found.

How a Chinese Webshell Survived 16 Months by Pretending to Be a Joomla Plugin

The short version: A backdoor disguised as a legitimate Joomla plugin called “MetaCache” lived on two websites for sixteen months without triggering any scanner. The attacker used it to walk back in this past weekend. We found it, removed it, and traced the persistence pattern.…

Cleaning Up a Joomla Hack Isn't Enough — What's Hiding in cPanel

The short version: When a Joomla site gets hacked through something like the recent JCE Editor vulnerability, most cleanups focus on the Joomla side — webshells, rogue users, malicious files. That work is necessary, but it isn't always sufficient anymore. On a site we helped…

The JCE Editor Hack — How to Check Your Joomla Site (and Clean It Up Easily)

The short version: Over the past week, hackers have been actively exploiting a vulnerability in JCE Editor — one of the most popular…

What's New in ochResponsiveImages 4.2.0 — And Why It Matters for Your Site's Speed

The short version: One of the Joomla extensions we install on every site in our Monthly Joomla Website Management package —…

What We Found Cleaning Up a Migrated Hosting Account

The short version: A website on one of our shared servers had been getting hacked over and over for months. Every time we cleaned it up,…

Why Some Websites Felt Glitchy This Week — And What We Found

The short version: For about five days this past week, websites hosted on our shared servers were occasionally throwing random errors — a…