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The Man Behind Plugin Spam: Mason Soiza

This post is part of a series. This is the second post and a follow-up to our first story titled “Display Widgets Plugin Includes Malicious Code to Publish Spam on WP Sites“. There is a third post in this series which explains how the same spammer influenced a total of 9 WordPress plugins over a …
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NGINX and PHP Malware Used in Petya/Nyetya Ransomware Attack

Author’s note: This is a technical blog post which I’m hoping server administrators and web hosting providers will find helpful.

In-Depth Analysis of a Criminal Organization Targeting WordPress Websites

Today we are posting an in-depth analysis of a prolific brute force attacker.

Malware: 139,000 WordPress Sites Saved in 30 Days

Wordfence provides two core security capabilities to the websites we protect.