Malicious Redirects Through Bogus Plugin

Recently we have been seeing a rash of WordPress website compromises with attackers abusing the plugin upload functionality in the wp-admin dashboard to redirect visitors and website owners to malicious websites.
The payload is the following bogus plu… Continue reading Malicious Redirects Through Bogus Plugin

Optimizing Performance and Behavior with WordPress and the Sucuri WAF

Aside from providing significant protection from a wide range of threats, the Sucuri WAF also acts as a CDN due to its caching capabilities and regional PoPs — often performing even better than dedicated CDNs based on recent tests.
CDNs can significan… Continue reading Optimizing Performance and Behavior with WordPress and the Sucuri WAF

New Guide on How to Use the Sucuri WordPress Security Plugin

Sucuri has always been active in the WordPress community. We’ve attended WordCamps around the world, created tools and features specifically for WordPress, and have maintained a free WordPress security plugin with over 400k installations.
If you… Continue reading New Guide on How to Use the Sucuri WordPress Security Plugin

Core Integrity Verifications

In order to clean a malware infection, the first thing we need to know is which files have been compromised. At Sucuri, we use several techniques including whitelists, blacklists, and anomaly checks. In this blog post, we’re going to be focusing… Continue reading Core Integrity Verifications