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Wordfence Research and News
Category: Podcasts
Episode 85: 0Day in File Manager Plugin and WordPress 5.5.1 Fixes Broken Sites
Over 700,000 WordPress users were affected by a zero-day vulnerability in the File Manager plugin, and the WordPress 5.5.1 release fixed millions of sites affected by deprecation of jQuery Migrate.
Episode 84: Google Chrome Plans to Implement Insecure Form Warnings
The Google Chrome web browser has a high-severity vulnerability that could be used to execute arbitrary code, which has been fixed in Chrome version 85.
Episode 83: 100,000 Sites Impacted by Vulnerabilities in Advanced Access Manager
The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered vulnerabilities in the Advanced Access Manager plugin installed on over 100,000 WordPress sites.
Episode 82: Important Changes in the WordPress 5.5 Update
WordPress 5.5 was released on August 11 with a number of important updates, including a new feature allowing auto-updates of themes and plugins as well as changes to the block editor.
Episode 81: Critical Vulnerability Exposes over 700,000 Sites Using Divi, Extra, and Divi Builder
Our Threat Intelligence team disclosed numerous vulnerabilities this week, including a critical vulnerability in the Divi and Extra themes as well as the Divi Builder plugin.
Episode 80: Critical File Upload Vulnerability in wpDiscuz Plugin
In this week’s news, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in the wpDiscuz plugin, affecting over 80,000 WordPress sites.
Episode 79: High Profile Twitter Accounts Compromised in Coordinated Attack
A number of high profile Twitter accounts including those of Elon Musk, Apple, Uber, Bill Gates, Joe Biden and others were compromised as a part of a coordinated bitcoin scam attack.
Episode 78: Targeted Phishing Bypassing Security Checks and a new DDoS Record
This week, we look at some targeted phishing attacks that are bypassing Microsoft Outlook’s protective filters, and phishing campaigns using calendar invitations to target unsuspecting recipients.
Episode 77: WordPress 5.4.2 Released, Fake Ransomware Bitcoin Scams
This week, we look at the WP 5.4.2 release and a ransomware bitcoin scam targeting site owners with a “You’ve Been Hacked” email.
Episode 76: Ongoing Attacks on WP Growing in Volume Plus Numerous Plugin Vulnerabilities
On this week’s Think Like a Hacker podcast, we cover an active attack campaign targeting WordPress sites and numerous plugin vulnerabilities.
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