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Brute Force

WordPress Database Bruteforce

March 11, 2020Denis Sinegubko

WordPress Database Brute Force and Backdoors

We regularly talk about brute force attacks on WordPress sites and explain why WordPress credentials should always be unique, complex, and hard to guess. However, the WordPress login is not the only point of entry that hackers use to break into sites. Since the WordPress…

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Hacked Website Threat Report 2019

January 28, 2020Rianna MacLeod

Hacked Website Threat Report – 2019

The threat landscape for website owners is constantly shifting on a regular basis — and it’s becoming increasingly more complex. As attackers continue to develop tools and find new vulnerabilities…

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Labs Note

May 9, 2019Luke Leal

xmlrpc.php Brute Force Tool

We discovered a xmlrpc.php brute-force tool in a malicious PHP script that appears to have been uploaded months ago after a vulnerable GDPR plugin exploit: $data = $_POST[‘data’]; $parameter =…

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How to Improve Your Website Security Posture

August 14, 2018AJ Syed Ali

How to Improve Your Website Security Posture – Part I

Have you ever wondered if your website security posture is adequate enough? The risk of having a website compromise is never going to be zero. However, as a webmaster, you…

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August 30, 2017Denis Sinegubko

Mining Adminers – Hackers Scan the Internet For DB Scripts

Hackers are constantly scanning the internet for exploitable sites, which is why even small, new sites should be fully patched and protected. At the same time, it is not feasible…

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June 2, 2017Nikki Gerren

Spotlight: How a Digital Marketing Agency Secures Client Sites

Based in Melbourne, Australia for over 17 years, 24Digital knows what it takes to succeed in the ever-evolving digital marketing space which is no longer a world resting on desktop…

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February 3, 2017Tony Perez

Website Application Firewalls (WAF) – Practical Approach to Website Security

In 2016, I shared some thoughts about firewalls in general; their history and purpose in the information security domain. The point of the article was to help website owners differentiate…

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December 14, 2016Daniel Cid

Ask Sucuri: How to Stop Brute Force Attacks?

Ask Sucuri: My site is under a brute force attack. What can I do? How can we solve this password guessing problem known as brute forcing? This is a common…

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September 28, 2016Daniel Cid

SSH Brute Force Compromises Leading to DDoS

A few weeks ago we ran an experiment to see how long it would take for some IPv4-only and IPv6-only servers to be compromised via SSH brute force attacks. We…

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Using WP Scan

December 23, 2015Alycia Mitchell

Using WPScan: Finding WordPress Vulnerabilities

When using WPScan you can scan your WordPress website for known vulnerabilities within the core version, plugins, and themes. You can also find out if any weak passwords, users, and…

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October 8, 2015Daniel Cid

Brute Force Amplification Attacks Against WordPress XMLRPC

Brute force attacks are one of the oldest and most common types of attacks that we still see on the Internet today. If you have a server online, it’s most…

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