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

If your WordPress site matters, upgrading to Wordfence Premium gives you the best protection available. And at $99 per year, it is incredibly affordable. Once you've made this great investment, there are a few things you can do to optimize your site's security....read more

In Summer 2016,  we began offering a site cleaning service for people with hacked websites. In Spring 2017, we added a second service: site security audits. The popularity of both services has grown tremendously since then. We now service hundreds of sites every month....read more

In the past few days the City of Atlanta has been hit with a ransomware attack. Several major computer systems that provide city services have been encrypted by an attacker. The attacker is demanding $51,000 worth of bitcoin to decrypt the systems, and the city has not yet ruled out paying the ransom. The attack occurred five days ago, and as of this writing, the systems remain inaccessible....read more

To better protect our users' websites, we work with a lot of data from sources like our Security Services Team and the Wordfence network. We try to understand not just what attackers are doing, but also how and why. Our research into a recent campaign revealed an interesting method of attack, and contributed to the development of a new feature....read more

It has now been a few weeks since we launched Wordfence 7. Overall we are confident that the change was a good one. The product is now cleaner, more modern and is much easier for a new user to navigate....read more

Wordfence is the most popular WordPress security software in the world for good reason. The protection offered by the endpoint firewall outperforms alternatives. The scanner delivers the best detection in the industry. A long list of other features like country blocking, two-factor authentication and password auditing make Wordfence the best and most comprehensive security solution available for WordPress....read more

Last week, we reported a massive upsurge in brute force login attempts following the leak of a database of 1.4 billion clear text credentials. No one had seen 14% of the exposed username/password pairs before, making this a ripe opportunity for hackers to attempt to break into WordPress sites....read more

The Wordfence team regularly discovers security issues with commercial services, such as WordPress hosting providers, that put their users at risk. In some cases, the issue is quite severe, putting thousands of websites at risk simultaneously. In these instances, our standard approach has been to contact the service provider directly, provide them with the details and work with them toward resolution. Lately these issues have become more common, so we've decided to formalize our approach going forward, updating our Vulnerability Disclosure Policy to specifically address these scenarios....read more

Today we are announcing that our company name is changing to Defiant Inc. Over the past 5 years we have grown significantly and have expanded beyond WordPress. As a security organization, we now have a stable of products and services to offer our customers. To reflect this change, we are changing the name of the company that produces Wordfence to Defiant Inc....read more

We have received a number of questions regarding the Postman SMTP plugin which was removed from the WordPress.org directory this week. According to an archived snapshot, the plugin is installed on over 100,000 websites. We assume it was removed because it contains a publicly known reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that has not been fixed. Both Wordfence Free and Premium users who have the firewall enabled have been protected against attempts to exploit this vulnerability from day one. In addition, we alerted all Wordfence users who have the plugin installed when it was removed from the plugin directory....read more