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

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

As an interesting research project, Pan Vagenas, one of our researchers, took a closer look at abandoned plugins in the WordPress repository. His work was inspired by a recent post by Isabel Castillo where she lists the oldest abandoned plugins in the WordPress plugin repository....read more

Today we are releasing the WordPress Attack Report for April, 2017. You can also find these previous attack reports on our blog:...read more

On April 11th, 3 weeks ago, we published a story discussing routers at a specific set of ISPs that have been hacked. These routers have been used to launch attacks on WordPress websites. The ISPs with compromised routers included Telecom Algeria, BSNL in India, PLDT in the Philippines and many more large ISPs around the world....read more

Securing WordPress has become easy thanks to the amazing work the WordPress team continuously do to fix vulnerabilities and improve the security of the platform. With the addition of Wordfence, it is possible to run a secure WordPress site and sleep well at night knowing your investment is safe....read more

In June last year we officially launched the Wordfence site cleaning service. Our senior analysts Brad and Colette had worked hard to put the processes in place we needed to provide an excellent site cleaning service to our customers that was fast, effective and safe. Since then the site cleaning team and the level of service has evolved tremendously. Today I want to share some of that progress with you....read more

One of our passion projects at Wordfence has been to find a way to create and run an IP blacklist. We have known for a long time which IPs are attacking the sites we protect and that if we can block those IPs outright, it would be a powerful way to improve the security we provide to our customers....read more

Update: By popular request, we have created a tool that lets you check if your own home router is vulnerable to the problems discussed in this post. Visit this page to check if your home router has port 7547 open or if it's running a vulnerable version of RomPager....read more

Last Friday we quietly launched a new Premium feature in Wordfence: A real-time IP blacklist that completely blocks known malicious IPs from accessing your website. On Monday we did a second release with a few improvements. Then we announced the blacklist on Tuesday this week....read more

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 else, and we are here to help our customers be more secure....read more