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WordPress activity logs can be helpful when troubleshooting or trying to identify a hack. In this article, you’ll learn about the seven things you should monitor in your WordPress logs.
Over the years, WordPress has grown more complex. WordPress… Continue reading 7 Things You Should Monitor in WordPress Activity Logs
Most of the time when we talk about spam, we think about mindless machines that create posts or comments to advertise a business related to drugs, accessories, or essays.
But what if a hacker tried to convince your clients to click on malicious links … Continue reading Spam That Fits Your Website
The WordPress plugin WP Statistics, which has an active installation base of 500k users, has an unauthenticated stored XSS vulnerability on versions prior to 12.6.7.
This vulnerability can only be exploited under certain configurations—the defau… Continue reading WordPress Plugin WP Statistics: Unauthenticated Stored XSS Under Certain Configurations
Except for phishing and scams, downloading an HTML attachment and opening it locally on your browser was never considered as a severe threat until a security researcher today demonstrated a technique that could allow attackers to steal files stored on … Continue reading 17-Year-Old Weakness in Firefox Let HTML File Steal Other Files From Device
Nowadays, DDoS is a pretty recognizable term. Though many webmasters don’t know exactly what a DDoS attack is—its method is very subtle to identify—they’re pretty sure it’s a bad thing. And that’s a correct assumpti… Continue reading How to Know If You Are under DDoS Attack
Across various social media platforms there are verification checkmark symbols that appear near the name of the account’s page we view. For example, this verified account indicator seen from our our Twitter page:
These verification checkmarks ex… Continue reading Fake Instagram Verification
Website security is what we eat, sleep, and breathe. It’s what we do best because we deal with hacked websites every single day, thousands of them. Among the various types and evolution in attack scenarios, one has remained the same for all thes… Continue reading Why is Your Website a Target? The SEO Value of a Website
There appears to be a general misunderstanding among internet users about the difference between malware and viruses. The two terms are often used interchangeably and to an extent, this is perfectly fine. This article seeks to clarify the difference b… Continue reading Malware vs Virus: What’s the Difference?
Recently, someone reached out to us about a malicious process they had discovered running on their web server. This process was maxing out the CPU, which is not unusual when a cryptominer process is running without any throttling.
Below is an example … Continue reading Cryptomining Dropper and Cronjob Creator
It’s no news that webmasters commonly make use of external scripts to add more features to their site, but things can turn out for the worse quite easily.
What if other scripts start behaving the same?
What if they start to use your website to s… Continue reading Lightbox Adware – From Innocent Scripts to Malicious Redirects