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

Recently, the Wordfence team has seen ransomware being used in attacks targeting WordPress. We are currently tracking a ransomware variant we are calling "EV ransomware." The following post describes what this ransomware does and how to protect yourself from being hit by this attack....read more

We have seen a significant increase in the number of websites affected by malware we refer to as 'TrafficTrade'. This malware is a piece of javascript that an attacker drops into your website content once they have compromised it. Your visitors are then redirected to websites that install malicious browser plugins or serve up spam advertising....read more

When choosing a firewall for your WordPress website to protect it against attacks, you have a handful of choices. Wordfence is one of the only effective "endpoint" firewalls available. The alternative is a "cloud" firewall from vendors like Sucuri (now owned by GoDaddy) and Cloudflare....read more

Wordfence is highly effective at securing your website in part because it is tightly integrated with the WordPress API. We know your visitor identity information, so we can make smart decisions about who gets access and who gets blocked. It's very different from the way generic firewalls work....read more

It's been a tough week for the WP Statistics plugin. Last Friday, Sucuri (now owned by GoDaddy) discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in the WP Statistics plugin version 12.0.7 and older. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker needs to register an account (or use a compromised account) with subscriber-level access. They can then exploit a weakness in a WP Statistics shortcode to launch a SQL injection attack. This allows them to, for example, create an admin-level user and sign in to your website as an admin....read more

2017 has been a remarkable year so far for Wordfence and our customers. We are about halfway through the year at this point, so I'd like to give you an update on some of the incredible innovation and progress at Wordfence in 2017....read more

On Thursday of last week, we released Wordfence 6.3.11 which included a really exciting new feature: we are now alerting you if you are running a plugin that either appears to be abandoned or has been removed from the WordPress.org plugin directory. In this post, we explain how each of these new alerts work and why they're so important to the security of your website....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

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