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BabaYaga: The WordPress Malware That Eats Other Malware
Recently, Defiant’s analysts have been tracking a particularly sophisticated malware infection responsible for generating spam links and redirection, while still remaining relatively difficult for victims to detect. Dubbed “BabaYaga” by our team, this infection is notable for containing code capable of removing its competition. BabaYaga actually has the ability to remove other malware. While this …
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Wordfence In Depth: How Malware Becomes Scan Signatures
One of the most effective ways the Wordfence team keeps the WordPress community and customers secure is through something we call the ‘Threat Defense Feed’.
Analysis: Methods and Monetization of a Botnet Attacking WordPress
At Wordfence we see a huge range of infection types every day as we help our customers repair hacked websites.
Avoid Malware Scanners That Use Insecure Hashing
In this post I’m going to discuss a major problem that exists with several WordPress malware scanners: The use of weak hashing algorithms for good and bad file identification.
Wordfence Integrates Malware Scan Into Firewall
If you’ve been using the Wordfence Firewall for a while, you may have noticed that our firewall ruleset has been growing steadily over the past few months.
Scary Data – Trends in Malware, Phishing, Site Cleaning and Bad Networks
At Wordfence we have great visibility into the size and scale of the threat facing the WordPress community.
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