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Announcing Gravityscan

Today the Wordfence team has a big announcement. We are launching Gravityscan.com, a completely free vulnerability and malware scanner. 

New WannaCry Ransomware and How to Protect Yourself

This is another Wordfence public service announcement (PSA) that describes new WannaCry ransomware variants that have emerged in the past few hours and describes how to protect yourself against the WannaCry ransomware, also known as the WannaCrypt ransomware.

22 Abandoned WordPress Plugins with Vulnerabilities

As an interesting research project, Pan Vagenas, one of our researchers, took a closer look at abandoned plugins in the WordPress repository.

The April 2017 WordPress Attack Report

Today we are releasing the WordPress Attack Report for April, 2017.

Home Router Botnet Shut Down in Past 72 Hours. Who did it?

On April 11th, 3 weeks ago, we published a story discussing routers at a specific set of ISPs that have been hacked.

20 Minutes to a Secure WordPress Website

Securing WordPress has become easy thanks to the amazing work the WordPress team continuously do to fix vulnerabilities and improve the security of the platform.

51 Tools for Security Analysts

Yesterday at Wordfence we had an “all welcome” technology sharing meeting with the entire company – or at least everyone that was available at the time.

Wordfence Site Cleaning Customer Reviews

In June last year we officially launched the Wordfence site cleaning service.

Chrome and Firefox Phishing Attack Uses Domains Identical to Known Safe Sites

Update on April 19th at noon Pacific time: Chrome has just released version 58.0.3029.81.

IP Blacklist Update: The Launch and Evolution of The Wordfence IP Blacklist

One of our passion projects at Wordfence has been to find a way to create and run an IP blacklist.