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Securing Port 443: The Gateway To A New Universe
At Wordfence our business is to secure over 4 million WordPress websites and keep them secure.
Increase In Malware Sightings on GoDaddy Managed Hosting
Today, March 15, 2022, The Wordfence Incident Response team alerted our Threat Intelligence team to an increase in infected websites hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress service, which includes MediaTemple, tsoHost, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe Managed WordPress sites.
We’re Now Blocking 10,000 Requests Per Hour in Ukraine From Known Malicious IPs
48 hours ago we deployed our commercial real-time threat intelligence automatically, and for free, to all Ukrainian websites with the .UA top-level domain.
Ukraine Universities Hacked As Russian Invasion Started
Note: This article has been updated to reflect that the hosting provider “Njalla”, which routed the malicious traffic involved in this attack, is based in Sweden, not in Finland, although IP geolocation data indicates that the specific server that the traffic transited may be based in Finland.
Entering a Higher State of Vigilance – Ukraine Under Attack
It appears that Russia has just commenced the invasion of Ukraine.
Announcing Wordfence Care and Wordfence Response
Today I’m incredibly excited to announce that we are launching two new products: Wordfence Care and Wordfence Response.
GoDaddy Breached – Plaintext Passwords – 1.2M Affected
There is an update available here: GoDaddy Breach Widens to tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe This morning, GoDaddy disclosed that an unknown attacker had gained unauthorized access to the system used to provision the company’s Managed WordPress sites, impacting up to 1.2 million of their WordPress customers.
PSA: Widespread Remote Working Scam Underway
I’ve just gotten off the phone with a victim of the scam that I’m about to describe.
It’s Not You. It’s Them. On Hacking and Responsible Disclosure.
A story was recently posted to Hacker News celebrating a hack of IoT devices at a school that let a student and their friends rickroll the school via a video system.
Wordfence Helps Enable Education in Uganda
I want to share something very exciting and truly wonderful with you all today.
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