Website Security News
If you’re wondering how to find and fix the Japanese keyword hack, get started by identifying a real-life example. First, open Google Translate, and then get the Japanese characters for the search term buy Ralph Lauren. Copy and paste that into your favorite search engine,…
Phishing attacks can come in all shapes and sizes. Posing a serious threat to industries large and small, phishing campaigns are the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive personal information or…
Read More about Multi-Step Phishing Kit Targeting Credit Union
When we investigate compromised websites, it’s not unusual to find malicious files that have been obfuscated through forms of encoding or encryption — however, these are not the only methods…
Throwback Threat Thursday is a series of posts where we recall older vulnerabilities that have since been patched by their developers. In the past, these vulnerabilities caused significant impacts to…
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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…
Read More about WordPress Database Brute Force and Backdoors
One of our remediation analysts Eli Trevino recently discovered a phishing page informing victims about fake Netflix service disruptions, supposedly due to problems with the victim’s payment method. The phishing…
Have you ever seen a website advertising products that seem unrelated to the apparent purpose of the site? Often, this suspicious content is promising pharmacy drugs, available quickly and without…
To better understand the difference between website malware and vulnerabilities, imagine your online property is a brick-and-mortar structure. You’d want to keep safe from burglars, so you take measures to…
Read More about Website Vulnerability vs. Malware – What’s the Difference?
Perhaps the best way to dive into the subject of finding and removing SEO spam on WordPress is with a quick experiment — probably one you’ll want to conduct at…
It’s a day every website owner fears. You open the website you’ve poured your time, energy, and money into, only to find your home page looking very different. After your…
We were recently contacted by a website owner about some malicious injected spam links that were being indexed by Google’s search engine crawler Googlebot. What was especially frustrating for the…
Read More about Abused Cloudflare Workers Service Used to Inject Korean SEO Spam
