Wordfence Research and News
Friday Long Read: What To Do About AI
This is a Friday long-read, so grab a warm cup of something and kick back because we’re going to take our time on this. The world is about to profoundly change. I know you’re nervous – perhaps excited and optimistic, but if you’ve been paying attention and have been watching the trajectory of this thing, …
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Trump Campaign Site Hacked – What We Know & Lessons Learned
On October 27, 2020 at approximately 4:50pm Mountain Time, Donald Trump’s campaign website, www.donaldjtrump.com, was defaced. The attackers left a message claiming they had compromising information on President Trump. The defacement page contained two Monero cryptocurrency wallet IDs encouraging visitors to “vote” by sending cryptocurrency to the wallets, indicating that if the first wallet received …
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WordCamp Phoenix Recap
The first WordCamp for 2019 took place this past weekend in Phoenix, Arizona with nearly 700 attendees, and we were delighted to be involved. In addition to our gold-level sponsorship, Wordfence Threat Analyst Mikey Veenstra spoke on Friday, and our Client Partner Kathy Zant worked for months on the organizing committee to bring this highly …
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WordCamp US Recap
WordCamp US was held in Nashville, Tennessee this year. We sponsored the event, had a booth and of course provided lock picking lessons, as has become our tradition at WordCamps. Our goal is to get you to think like a hacker, so that you can better secure your sites. Picking a lock really gets you …
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WordPress 5.0: How and When to Update
WordPress 5.0 is being released tomorrow, December 6th. This release contains a major change to the WordPress editor. The new editor, code-named Gutenberg, is a substantial leap forward in functionality. It uses a new block-based system for editing which allows you to embed a wide range of content in your posts and pages, and gives …
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Defiant’s Top 5 Spooky Security Jokes
Among a plethora of reasons to enjoy working here, we at Defiant are particularly vocal about our love for the remote office. A team spread across timezones and continents might sound like a challenge in group cohesion, but even though we’re divided geographically, we’ve forged a great culture that a breakroom ping-pong table just can’t …
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Breaking Out of Shells at DerbyCon
I downloaded my first copy of BackTrack when I was 13. I had no idea what I was doing, or how to use it, but I knew that I was hooked. I’ve been fascinated with technology since I was a kid, so the idea that I could interact with that technology in new and unexpected …
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Known WordPress Threat Actor Under Investigation For Prescription-Free Online Pharmacy
Last September we published a series of three blog posts exposing a threat actor who had purchased a number of WordPress plugins as part of an elaborate supply chain attack. This ownership enabled him to inject SEO spam into hundreds of thousands of websites, boosting search engine rankings for various illicit online businesses. In the …
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Hacked by an 11 Year Old
The Wordfence team recently sponsored and attended WordCamp Atlanta. Instead of doing the usual boring corporate thing with our booth, we decided to host a capture the flag, or CTF contest. A CTF is essentially a hacking contest. It is a series of puzzles that the contestant needs to solve. They might include decrypting an …
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Remote Working: No Bad Hair Days at Wordfence
The core team at Wordfence is now 13 full-time employees, and with contractors we are a team of 29. We are still at that really fun size where you can have a full team meeting and everyone has a chance to have their say. Every day feels like a hacker conference where everyone knows everyone …
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