What is a Malware Attack?
Stephen Johnston A malware attack is the act of injecting malicious software to infiltrate and execute unauthorized commands within a victim’s system without their knowledge or authorization.…
How to Secure & Harden Your Joomla! Website in 12 Steps
Victor Santoyo At Sucuri, we’re often asked how website owners and webmasters can secure their websites. However, advice can often be too broad; different content management systems…
WordPress Vulnerability & Patch Roundup September 2022
Antony Garand 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…
New Malware Variants Serve Bogus CloudFlare DDoS Captcha
Ben Martin When attackers shift up their campaigns, change their payload or exfiltration domains, and put some extra effort into hiding their malware it’s usually a telltale…
Magento Supply Chain Attack Targets Extension Developer FishPig
Magento store owners using the popular FishPig extensions should be wary of a recent supply chain attack which compromised their software repository. FishPig released a…
Gambling Spam in Visual Composer Raw HTML Element: [vc_raw_html]
Denis Sinegubko Bad actors often look for clever ways to boost the rankings and visibility of their spam pages in search. One of the many black hat…
What Is Clickjacking & How Do I Prevent It?
There are a plethora of techniques that attackers use to redirect site visitors and harvest sensitive information on compromised websites. But when most webmasters think…
WordPress Vulnerabilities & Patch Roundup — August 2022
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…
How to Remove 404 Errors in Search Console
Cesar Anjos Hacked websites are known to result in a plethora of headaches for webmasters, including malicious redirects, broken links, and unwanted spam content. But did you…
Examining Less-Common WordPress Credit Card Skimmers
Since 2020 considerable attention has been spent analysing the emergence of MageCart malware within WordPress environments which most commonly affects sites using WooCommerce. As demonstrated…
Fake DDoS Pages On WordPress Sites Lead to Malicious Downloads
It’s not uncommon for users to experience “DDoS Protection” pages when casually browsing the web. These DDoS protection pages are typically associated with browser checks…