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Compromised Joomla sites are foisting ransomware on visitors

July 19, 2016

Administrators of WP and Joomla sites would do well to check for specific fake analytics code injected into their properties, as a ransomware delivery campaign taking advantage of vulnerable sites has been going strong for over a month now.

Sucuri researchers began warning about the “Realstatistics” malware campaign two weeks ago, and dated it back to June 6 (at least).

The name of the campaign was derived from the name of the domains used by the attackers to host the exploit kit: first realstatistics.info, then realstatistics.pro.

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