Website Security News
Recently we have been seeing a rash of WordPress website compromises with attackers abusing the plugin upload functionality in the wp-admin dashboard to redirect visitors and website owners to malicious websites. The payload is the following bogus plugin located here: ./wp-content/plugins/plugs/plugs.php At first glance these…
Aside from providing significant protection from a wide range of threats, the Sucuri WAF also acts as a CDN due to its caching capabilities and regional PoPs — often performing…
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Sucuri has always been active in the WordPress community. We’ve attended WordCamps around the world, created tools and features specifically for WordPress, and have maintained a free WordPress security plugin…
Read More about New Guide on How to Use the Sucuri WordPress Security Plugin
In order to clean a malware infection, the first thing we need to know is which files have been compromised. At Sucuri, we use several techniques including whitelists, blacklists, and…
Our involvement in WordPress security has always been a core part of our mission here at Sucuri. We have teams who actively lend advice on WordPress support forums to hacked…
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Pharma hacks are common website infections categorized under SEO spam. With pharma hacks, the attacker exploits vulnerable websites to distribute pharmaceutical content to search engines and the sites visitors. Symptoms of…
Read More about Cleaning the Wp-Page Pharma Hack in WordPress
As a child, did you ever play that game where you sit in a circle and one person is responsible for whispering something into one persons ear, and that message…
Update 9/9/16: We released a new guide to cleaning a hacked WordPress site with our plugin. If your site has been recently hacked and you are trying to clean it…
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If you are using our CloudProxy WAF to protect your WordPress websites, we highly recommend that you also install our new CloudProxy plugin for WordPress. It has been public for…
We just released some major updates to our Free WordPress plugin that we recommend all WordPress users check out. Before the update, the plugin was just a simplified way to…
Read More about Free Sucuri WordPress Plugin Gets New Features
Update 11/3/2017: Check out our latest WordPress Security Guide for best practices to keep your website protected and learn about vulnerabilities. Often you hear the question, “What plugins should I…
Read More about WordPress Security: 5 Steps To Reduce Your Risk
