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Wordfence Research and News
Category: General Security
PSA: Petya Ransomware Affecting Critical Systems Globally: Here’s What to Do.
Updated 3:19PM Pacific Time: A method to ‘vaccinate’ yourself against this ransomware variant has been found.
PSA: OneLogin Breached. Here’s What You Need to Do.
This is a public service announcement from Wordfence. We are sending this notice to the WordPress community due to the widespread nature and potential severity of this security issue.
Wordfence Launches WordPress Security Audit Service
This morning I am very excited to announce that Wordfence is officially launching a WordPress Security Audit service.
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.
Massive Global Ransomware Attack Underway, Patch Available
UPDATE on Sunday at 1:40PM PST: New variants of WannaCrypt are now emerging.
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.
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.
Check if Your Home Router is Vulnerable
At Wordfence, we make a firewall and malware scanner that protects over 2 million WordPress websites.
‘Secure’ in Chrome Browser Does Not Mean ‘Safe’
Google’s Chrome web browser is used by over 50% of users on the web.
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