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The most effective phishing and malware campaigns usually employ one of the following two age-old social engineering techniques: Impersonation These online phishing campaigns impersonate a popular brand or product through specially crafted emails, SMS, or social media networks. These campaigns employ various methods including email…
Read More about Hackers Use Fake Google reCAPTCHA to Cloak Banking Malware
As a security company, we deal with a lot of compromised websites. Unfortunately, in most cases, we have limited access to customer logs, which is one of the reasons why…
As a website industry professional, you are aware of the importance of website security. This is especially true when managing 10 or more sites. How can you convey this message…
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A bot is a software application that uses automation to run scripts on the internet. Also called crawlers or spiders, these guys take on the simple yet repetitive tasks we…
We see a lot of files infected by website malware on a daily basis here at Sucuri Labs. What we don’t see is very many categories of infections. The purpose…
Read More about The Anatomy of Website Malware: An Introduction
It isn’t easy to be secure all the time — this is especially true if you are new to cybersecurity. A well-formed security plan takes deliberate effort at the very…
Read More about Safer Internet Day: Security vs. Convenience
What is Cross-Site Contamination? Cross-site contamination happens when a hacked site infects other sites on a shared server. Think of it as your kid in daycare catching the flu, next…
Read More about How to Prevent Cross-Site Contamination for Beginners
Here at Sucuri, we clean WordPress websites every day. There are various types of common malware, but when we stumble upon a different scenario, our research team likes to dig…
Read More about Spam Injector Disguised as License Key in WordPress Website
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can disrupt website traffic and impact any business. To help website owners and webmasters improve their website resilience to DDoS attacks, we have put together a…
Read More about Optimize Setup to Improve Your Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks
SiteCheck is Sucuri’s free website malware and security scanner offered to anyone who wants to scan their websites for malware and blacklist status. Last year, we improved SiteCheck’s speed and…
To bring awareness to what threatens the integrity of websites, we are continuing a series of posts on the OWASP top 10 security risks. The OWASP Top 10 list consists…
