Phishing Emails to Install Malicious WordPress Plugins
Daniel Cid When all else fails, the bad guys can always rely on some basic social engineering tactics with a little hit of phishing!! Over the weekend,…
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Stealing Credit Cards – A WordPress and vBulletin Hack
Tony Perez What better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than to share an interesting case that involves two of the most popular CMS applications out there – vBulletin…
Another Fake WordPress Plugin – And Yet Another SPAM Infection!
Peter Gramantik We clean hundreds and thousands of infected websites, a lot of the cleanups can be considered to be somewhat “routine”. If you follow our blog,…
The Story of Clip:rect – A Black Hat SEO Trick
Denis Sinegubko We regularly write about Black Hat SEO hacks here. Such hacks help hackers monetize their access to compromised sites by incorporating them into massive schemes…
Case Study: Analyzing a WordPress Attack – Dissecting the webr00t cgi shell – Part I
November 1st started like any other day on the web. Billions of requests were being shot virtually between servers in safe and not so safe…
Cleaning Up Your WordPress Site with the Free Sucuri Plugin
Update 9/9/16: We released a new guide to cleaning a hacked WordPress site with our plugin. If your site has been recently hacked and you…
Sucuri CloudProxy WAF Plugin for WordPress
If you are using our CloudProxy WAF to protect your WordPress websites, we highly recommend that you also install our new CloudProxy plugin for WordPress.…
WordPress Database Table and wp_head Injections
There are multiple places where a malware injection can be hidden on a web site. On WordPress, for example, it can be hidden inside the…
WordPress 3.6.1 Released – Includes Security Fixes
Dre Armeda The WordPress team just pushed out a new version of WordPress. WordPress 3.6.1 is a maintenance release that includes some security bug fixes. Straight from…
Free Sucuri WordPress Plugin Gets New Features
We just released some major updates to our Free WordPress plugin that we recommend all WordPress users check out. Before the update, the plugin was…
New WordPress and Joomla Updates Available
David Dede If you are a WordPress or Joomla user, you better start updating your sites now. Joomla 2.5.14 Joomla 2.5.14 was released containing some critical security…