Website Security News
Read articles related to WordPress security, including the latest WordPress vulnerabilities disclosured in popular plugins and themes. Learn about emerging website malware infections that could impact WordPress, industry reports, and best practices to secure your WordPress websites. If your website has been hacked, check out our guide to clean hacked WordPress sites.
Attackers are always looking for new ways to conceal their malware and evade detection, whether it’s through new forms of obfuscation, concatenation, or — in this case — unorthodox use of image file extensions. One of the most common backdoors that we have observed over…
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes of website compromises. To help…
Read More about WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup January 2023
Did you just try to access your site and encounter a Deceptive Site Ahead warning? This error message occurs when the browser believes your website is unsafe and experiencing security…
Read More about How to Fix the “Deceptive Site Ahead” Warning
Every so often attackers register a new domain to host their malware. In many cases, these new domains are associated with specific malware campaigns, often related to redirecting legitimate website…
Read More about Massive Campaign Uses Hacked WordPress Sites as Platform for Black Hat Ad Network
Vulnerabilities within WordPress can lead to compromise, and oftentimes known vulnerabilities are utilized to infect WordPress sites with more than one infection. It is common for out of date websites…
Read More about Vulnerable WordPress Sites Compromised with Different Database Infections
According to W3Techs, 43.2% of all websites on the internet use WordPress. And of all websites that use a CMS (Content Management System) more than half (64%) leverage WordPress to…
Critical errors on any system can be extremely frustrating. But if you’ve recently encountered the “There has been a critical error on this website” message on your WordPress site, don’t…
Read More about How to Fix “There Has Been a Critical Error on This Website” in WordPress
Vulnerability reports and responsible disclosures are essential for website security awareness and education. Automated attacks targeting known software vulnerabilities are one of the leading causes of website compromises. To help…
Read More about WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup December 2022
Regular website backups are the foundation of a solid website security plan. In the event of data loss or malware infection, restoring a WordPress backup helps you quickly and easily…
A recent infection has been making its rounds across vulnerable WordPress sites, detected on over 160 websites so far at the time of writing. The infection is injected at the…
Read More about Fake jQuery Domain Redirects Site Visitors to Scam Pages
Attackers are always finding unique ways to avoid detection. Our teams regularly find malware on compromised websites which have been obfuscated to make it more difficult for webmasters to detect…
Read More about How to Fix & Remove the “Click Allow If You Are Not a Robot” Redirect
