Foregenix Blog

Foregenix are setting-up a new base in Australia, targetting the Asia Pacific region for growth.

The new office in Sydney will open in May and be headed by Raymond Simpson, who will lead the consulting team across the Asia Pacific region.

Foregenix’s new Regional Director for the APAC Region brings over 15 years’ information security experience, including specialist knowledge of security and regulatory requirements across the APAC region. Simpson’s sector experience spans retail, hospitality, aviation, banking and telecoms and the payment card industries. 

• 47,000 out of 60,000 websites missing critical security patches
• Over 3,000 are already hacked and losing customer data now

External security scans performed on 60,000 Magento websites show that 78% are missing critical security patches, while 5% are confirmed to have payment card data harvesting malware stealing their customer details. 

The Foregenix DFIR team has discovered what is believed to be a unreported piece of malware which has recently been used to target insecure eCommerce websites processing through Stripe, running on the Magento framework.

Foregenix has been named a finalist in the SC Awards 2017 Europe for outstanding industry leadership in information security. FGX-Web is recognised in the Best SME Security solution category, which acknowledges superior services and solutions that help customers address the most pressing cyber-security threats. The winners will be announced at the SC Magazine Awards Europe ceremony to be held in London on Tuesday 6 June at the stunning central London venue on the Riverside of the Thames, Old Billingsgate.

A new piece of malware has been identified by the Foregenix DFIR team.  The malware is a PHP webshell - a script, which when installed on a compromised system, presents a sophisticated administration platform allowing the attacker to browse the filesystem of the compromised server, upload, create, edit, download or delete files or stop running processes.