Website Security News
Learn about the latest website security news from our research and incident response teams. Find out about emerging website malware campaigns and the best steps to protect your site from hackers. To learn more check out the series of website security guides created by our team.
If you’re wondering how to find and fix the Japanese keyword hack, get started by identifying a real-life example. First, open Google Translate, and then get the Japanese characters for the search term buy Ralph Lauren. Copy and paste that into your favorite search engine,…
Phishing attacks can come in all shapes and sizes. Posing a serious threat to industries large and small, phishing campaigns are the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive personal information or…
Read More about Multi-Step Phishing Kit Targeting Credit Union
In today’s internet age we take our privacy for granted. We sign up for many services which are “free.” We participate in giveaways and generally give out information about ourselves…
Read More about How to Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) from Search Engines
The current COVID-19 epidemic is changing the way people work, rapidly moving to working remotely as I have done for 20 years. I am providing this advice for smaller businesses…
Read More about VPN: A Key to Securing an Online Work Environment
When we investigate compromised websites, it’s not unusual to find malicious files that have been obfuscated through forms of encoding or encryption — however, these are not the only methods…
During the COVID-19 pandemic, there is concern about health systems worldwide. Many people in isolation or self-quarantine are looking for accurate medical information online on a daily basis. As a…
Read More about Free Sucuri WAF for Medical & Social Services
Online bad actors tend to take advantage of tragedy for their own gain – and the coronavirus is no different. While we would hope that cybercriminals would be sympathetic during…
Read More about Safe Browsing During a Pandemic: How to Spot COVID-19 Phishing Campaigns
With the new pandemic hovering over our heads, the main piece of advice from most countries is stay home. Working remotely is a new reality for many people around the…
As the online threat landscape continues to evolve, so too does the language we use to describe it. To support a safer internet for everyone, we’ve compiled this glossary. Based…
Throwback Threat Thursday is a series of posts where we recall older vulnerabilities that have since been patched by their developers. In the past, these vulnerabilities caused significant impacts to…
Read More about Throwback Threat Thursday: WordPress 4.7 WP-JSON Content Injection Vulnerability
We regularly talk about brute force attacks on WordPress sites and explain why WordPress credentials should always be unique, complex, and hard to guess. However, the WordPress login is not…
Read More about WordPress Database Brute Force and Backdoors
