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Wordfence Research and News
Category: WordPress Security
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).
Vulnerability Roundup for Thursday July 28th
This is a roundup of recent vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins that you should be aware of.
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