Mark Maunder, Author at Wordfence

18X Speedup in Wordfence Scan

Wordfence 6.2.0 was released yesterday and it includes something really special: a huge improvement in scan performance.

Interview with Security Researcher Pan Vagenas

At Wordfence I’m really proud of the team we have. Our team are all amazing people who work hard every day to help secure WordPress websites.

Wordfence Integrates Malware Scan Into Firewall

If you’ve been using the Wordfence Firewall for a while, you may have noticed that our firewall ruleset has been growing steadily over the past few months.

Malware: 139,000 WordPress Sites Saved in 30 Days

Wordfence provides two core security capabilities to the websites we protect.

Hacking a WordPress Botnet

While analyzing some of the attacks we see on the Wordfence Web Application Firewall, we discovered code that an attacker was trying to upload that was part of a botnet.

We will always put our customers and community first

On Tuesday we published a blog post about the 404 to 301 plugin inserting ad links into page content that only search engines could see.

Top 50 Most Attacked WordPress Plugins This Week

Last week we shared the top 20 most attacked WordPress themes and an explanation of why many of them are targeted.

404 to 301 Plugin Considered Harmful

Yesterday we received a site cleaning request where one of our customers was seeing spammy links, Payday Loans in this case, injected into their WordPress website page content.

This Week’s Top 20 Attacked Themes and Who is Attacking Them

Today we’re publishing statistics on the attacks we are seeing on themes across the WordPress ecosystem.

Profile of a Russian Attack IP

At Wordfence we track attacks across all our customer sites, both free and paid to learn more about attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP’s).

Wordfence Research and News