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Moving a WordPress website from HTTP to HTTPS should be a priority for any webmaster. Recent statistics show that over 33% of website administrators across the web use WordPress and many of these websites have still not added an SSL certificate. Why is Important to…
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We are proud to be releasing our latest Hacked Website Trend Report for 2018. This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the GoDaddy Security / Sucuri team,…
Over the last few months, we’ve noticed several credit card-stealing scripts that use variations of the Google Analytics name to make them look less suspicious and evade detection by website…
Read More about Google Analytics and Angular in Magento Credit Card Stealing Scripts
The most effective phishing and malware campaigns usually employ one of the following two age-old social engineering techniques: Impersonation These online phishing campaigns impersonate a popular brand or product through…
Read More about Hackers Use Fake Google reCAPTCHA to Cloak Banking Malware
A bot is a software application that uses automation to run scripts on the internet. Also called crawlers or spiders, these guys take on the simple yet repetitive tasks we…
Every year we see an increase in website attacks during the holidays. While business owners see their sales go up due to promotional Black Friday and Cyber Monday campaigns, hackers…
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Google, Mozilla, and other web authorities are pushing for website owners to adopt HTTPS. Soon, Google Chrome will start flagging sites by displaying a warning that the site is “Not secure“….
We are all familiar with the conventional domain name notation, where different levels are concatenated with the full stop character (period). E.g. “www.example.com”, where “www” is a subdomain, “example” is…
Read More about CoinImp Cryptominer and Fully Qualified Domain Names
We’ve all seen sketchy looking emails or texts with malicious links to click on. There are still people who fall for these more obvious types of scams, however, phishing scam…
Read More about Google and Facebook Used in Phishing Campaigns
Denial of Service (Dos) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are unforgiving. They test the limits of your web server and application resources by sending spikes of fake traffic…
Read More about How to Improve Website Resilience for DDoS Attacks – Part I
An enormous number of SEO spam infections are handled by us here at Sucuri. In our most recent hacked website trend report, we analyzed over 34,000+ websites and identified that…
