Updates on CyberSecurity, WordPress and what we're cooking in the lab today.

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. It has a high likelihood of impacting some of our readers and requires immediate action on their part....read more

This morning I am very excited to announce that Wordfence is officially launching a WordPress Security Audit service. Many of our customers have asked us for a service like this and it has finally arrived....read more

A few hours ago WordPress abruptly released 4.7.5 which is a security release. It fixes six vulnerabilities which are detailed on the wordpress.org blog....read more

Today the Wordfence team has a big announcement. We are launching Gravityscan.com, a completely free vulnerability and malware scanner. You can use Gravityscan to find out if your website has been hacked and if you have any security problems that may lead to a hack in future....read more

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. We occasionally send out alerts that are outside the WordPress space when we feel that they are in the interests of our WordPress publishers and the broader global community. This is, unfortunately, one of those alerts....read more

As an interesting research project, Pan Vagenas, one of our researchers, took a closer look at abandoned plugins in the WordPress repository. His work was inspired by a recent post by Isabel Castillo where she lists the oldest abandoned plugins in the WordPress plugin repository....read more

Today we are releasing the WordPress Attack Report for April, 2017. You can also find these previous attack reports on our blog:...read more

On April 11th, 3 weeks ago, we published a story discussing routers at a specific set of ISPs that have been hacked. These routers have been used to launch attacks on WordPress websites. The ISPs with compromised routers included Telecom Algeria, BSNL in India, PLDT in the Philippines and many more large ISPs around the world....read more

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. With the addition of Wordfence, it is possible to run a secure WordPress site and sleep well at night knowing your investment is safe....read more

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. The meeting became so popular with our team that we had to upgrade the license we use for our real-time collaboration service to accommodate everyone. It is the largest team meeting we have had to date....read more