Cyber Criminals Take Advantage of Recent Boston Attack with SPAM
Tony Perez It pains me to write about this at all, but as despicable as this might appear, cyber criminals have started to take advantage of those…
The WordPress Brute Force Attack Timeline
Daniel Cid Authored by Daniel Cid, Tony Perez. We have been blogging about the massive brute force attacks against WordPress websites over the past few days, today…
WordPress Malicious Plugin – WPPPM – Abusing 404 Redirects with SEO Poisoning
Bruno Borges, of our security team, came across an interesting case this week, in which a WordPress plugin was abusing the 404 rewrite rules and…
Brute Force Attacks and Their Consequences
There is a lot of interesting discussion across the interwebs on the intention of the latest string of brute force attacks. While I can’t repudiate…
Mass WordPress Brute Force Attacks? – Myth or Reality
We are seeing in the media some noise about a large distributed brute force attacks against all hosts targeting WordPress sites. According to reports, they…
Protecting Against WordPress Brute-Force Attacks
It was not long ago that I was sitting on a call with other members of the WordPress community in which we were talking abou…
When Good Plugins Go Bad – SEO Spam on Joomla Websites
We recently published an article about an interesting case where a very popular WordPress Plugin (Social Media Widget), with more than 900,000 downloads, got sold…
WordPress Plugin Social Media Widget Hiding Spam – Remove it now
Authored by Daniel Cid and Tony Perez. If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget), make sure to remove it immediately from your…
WordPress Security Presentation by Tony Perez
Tomorrow I will be flying to my hometown (Miami) to give a Website Security presentation to a bunch of enthusiastic online professionals at an event…
UNICAMP – Used to Host Phishing Pages
Magno Rodrigues We just discovered that UNICAMP (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), a renowned Brazilian University, has had their infrastructure compromised and it is being used to host…
Comment SPAM Bad Neighborhood Analysis (2013-Mar)
We track and block a lot of comment SPAM via our WordPress plugin and our CloudProxy WAF. One thing we noticed is that the majority…