Increased Popularity in DDoS Extortion Campaigns
Daniel Cid Over the past few months, our security operations group have identified and mitigated an increasing number of DDoS attacks tied to extortion attempts from different…
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Sucuri += HTTP/2 — Announcing HTTP/2 Support
We are happy to announce that we are now offering HTTP/2 support to all clients using our Website Firewall (CloudProxy) product. Our own site already…
WPScan Intro: WordPress Vulnerability Scanner
Alycia Mitchell Have you ever wanted to run security tests on your WordPress website to see if it could be easily hacked? WPScan is a black box…
Brute Force Amplification Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC
Brute force attacks are one of the oldest and most common types of attacks that we still see on the Internet today. If you have…
Analyzing Proxy Based Spam Networks
Tony Perez We are no strangers to Blackhat SEO techniques, we’ve actually spent a great deal of time working and sharing various bits of information related to…
WordPress Brute Force Attacks – 2015 Threat Landscape
One of the first server-level compromises I had to deal with in my life was around 15 years ago, and it was caused by an…
Ask Sucuri: How to Create Website Backups?
Ben Martin Recently I had the good fortune of being able to present at Wordcamp Vancouver 2015. My presentation was titled ‘Why Security Matters‘ and I mentioned…
Analyzing Popular Layer 7 Application DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a major concern for website owners for a while. All types of sites, from small to big,…
Understanding File and Folder Permissions for Better Website Security
Sucuri Website security begins on the server, not with a plugin. Every page and configuration file is stored on disk, and the operating system controls who…
FunWebProducts UserAgent Bloating Traffic
Every once in a while we get a case that makes us dig deep to find answers. We have spoken before about the trouble with…
Ask Sucuri: How Did My WordPress Website Get Hacked? – A Tutorial
With the proliferation of Infrastructure and Platform as a Service providers, it is no surprise that a majority of today’s websites are hosting in the…