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#28407 Details on this Type of Attacks

Posted in ‘Admin Tools for Joomla! 4 & 5’
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Latest post by on Sunday, 08 October 2017 17:17 CDT

mshihan
Hello,

Today I have received the following securiy exception email from AdminTools.

We would like to notify you that a security exception was detected on your site, example.com, with the following details:

IP Address: dirname(JFactory::getConfig()->get(base64_decode(bG9nX3BhdGg))).base64_decode(L3RtcC9zZngucGhw));exit;";s:19:"cache_name_function";s:6:"assert";s:5:"cache";b:1;s:11:"cache_class";O:20:"JDatabaseDriverMysql":0:{}}i:1;s:4:"init";}}s:13:"\0\0\0connection";b:1;}ğııı (IP Lookup: IP Lookup)
Reason: MUA Shield

I have never seen this type of attacks on my site so far and there is no way to find attacker's IP address to block him. But I don't feel uncomfortable because AdminTool has blocked the attack twice successfully. I would be very grateful if you could give me some explanation about this type of attacks.

Best Regards

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

this is a kind of attack for old Joomla installation, prior to version 3.4.6.
Admin Tools will block this kind of attacks; anyway, since your site is updated to the latest version, this kind of attack will never succeed.
So you can sleep safe.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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