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

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

UPDATE on Sunday at 1:40PM PST: New variants of WannaCrypt are now emerging. We have posted an updated blog post that includes instructions on how to protect yourself. ...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

Update on April 19th at noon Pacific time: Chrome has just released version 58.0.3029.81. We have confirmed that this resolves the issue and that our 'epic.com' test domain no longer shows as 'epic.com' and displays the raw punycode instead, which is 'www.xn--e1awd7f.com', making it clear that the domain is not 'epic.com'. We encourage all Chrome users to immediately update to the above version of Chrome to resolve the issue. The original post follows:...read more

At Wordfence, we make a firewall and malware scanner that protects over 2 million WordPress websites. We also monitor attacks on those sites to determine which IPs are attacking them and we block those IPs in real-time through a blacklist....read more

Google's Chrome web browser is used by over 50% of users on the web. When you visit a website that is using SSL, otherwise known as HTTPS or TLS, you see a green message in your browser location bar that says "Secure"....read more

In the past month, our forensic analysts ran into two situations where we saw a significant number of site cleaning customers, all from the same hosting companies, all with the same malware. In both cases the sites were infected due to a hosting company security issue....read more