What is Pharma Hack Spam?
Art Martori Have you ever seen a website advertising products that seem unrelated to the apparent purpose of the site? Often, this suspicious content is promising pharmacy…
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Website Vulnerability vs. Malware – What’s the Difference?
To better understand the difference between website malware and vulnerabilities, imagine your online property is a brick-and-mortar structure. You’d want to keep safe from burglars,…
How to Find & Remove SEO Spam on WordPress
Perhaps the best way to dive into the subject of finding and removing SEO spam on WordPress is with a quick experiment — probably one…
Is My Site Hacked? (7 Signs)
Rianna MacLeod Editorial: This post was last updated October 26th, 2022. It’s a day every website owner fears. You open the website you’ve poured your time, energy,…
SSL Testing Methods
Marc Kranat Not all SSL configurations on websites are equal, and a growing number push for HTTPS everywhere. There is an increasing demand to check and quantify…
Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam
Luke Leal We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot. What…
What is Ransomware?
Justin Channell Ransomware has been one of the scariest topics in cybersecurity for years – and for good reason. Living up to its name, ransomware is a…
Creative Phishing for Digital Gold on RuneScape
Antony Garand RuneScape is an extremely popular massive multiplayer online game. With over 200 million generated accounts, its claim to fame is that it’s one of the…
Fixing “Uncommon Download” Warnings in Google Search Console
Alycia Mitchell Over the past few months, a lot of website owners have received “uncommon download” warnings from Google Search Console. These warnings can be vague, often…
Password Attacks 101
Cesar Anjos One of the most common attacks carried out nowadays is related to cracking passwords, but most people probably just know about brute-forcing. There are, in…
Stored XSS in Elementor
Marc-Alexandre Montpas During a routine audit of WordPress plugins last december, we discovered a Stored XSS vulnerability in the very popular Elementor Page Builder plugin, which powers…