SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Last week, WordPress 4.9.5 WordPress 4.9.5 These vulnerabilities are considered low severity, and are part of an overall mission at WordPress to further enhance the security of the core application. was released — a security and maintenance release. addressed three major security vulnerabilities and 25 other bugs.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 25, 2023

WordPress plugins are under fire once more, and you’re advised to update your version of Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner as soon as possible. If you think you might be at risk, or you’re unsure which version you’re running, now is the time to pop over to the plugin’s WordPress page and see if an update is required.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Recently, a security researcher released a zero-day stored XSS vulnerability in WordPress, meaning it was previously undisclosed and, at the time, unpatched. The vulnerability affected the latest versions of WordPress at release, including 4.2. The xss vulnerability involves how WordPress stores comments in its MySQL database.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 9, 2023

During a routine web monitoring operation, we discovered an address that led us down a rabbit hole of WordPress-orientated “hack waves” caused by the Balada Injector malware. Within the file, there were seven brackets of PHP tags and each of them contained an obfuscated piece of code within. 206.76.55.162.clients.your-server.de

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was a heavily attended event with almost five hundred WordPress designers, developers, and content creators who filled the Washington State Convention Center’s Tahoma space on the third floor. Keynote – WordPress is a Banquet. Andrea Middleton leads the Global Community Team for the WordPress Open Source project.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

February's Patch Tuesday tackles three zero-days Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams Arris router vulnerability could lead to complete takeover Ransomware pushes City of Oakland into state of emergency TikTok (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2019

The plugin is one of the 1,000 most popular plugins and it was closed on the WordPress Plugin Directory yesterday. For lower level users, WordPress does not sanitize them for usage as HTML tag attributes. The code in the last line shows output as HTML tag attributes that are not being escaped. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The most popular web content management system (CMS) is WordPress, which is used by more than 30% of all websites. By extension, the most popular ecommerce platform in the world is WooCommerce, a plugin that turns a WordPress website into an online shop. Stay safe, everyone!

eCommerce 73

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2020

Experts found a critical bug in Google’s official WordPress plugin ‘Site Kit’ that could allow hackers to gain owner access to targeted sites’ Google Search Console. The Site Kit WordPress plugin makes it easy to set up and configure key Google products (i.e. Pierluigi Paganini.

Authentication 107

Authentication Advertising Engineering Hacking 107

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Although I’ve been in the WordPress space since 2005, these past five years have seen massive growth in both the software we all know and love, and for me professionally. WordPress 101 Beginners Course. The Future of WordPress Development. Gutenberg will be shipping with WordPress v5.0 Friday Workshops. Grzegorz Zió?kowski

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This month hackers exploiting a vulnerability in the WordPress REST API successfully defaced over a million websites in what has become one of the largest website defacement campaigns to date. The attacks injected content that overwrote existing posts on WordPress websites running versions 4.7 The Basic Anatomy of a WordPress Website.

eCommerce 52

eCommerce Passwords Authentication Malware 52

Security Affairs

JUNE 5, 2023

. “Attackers employ a number of evasion techniques during the campaign, including obfuscating Base64 and masking the attack to resemble popular third-party services, such as Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager.” ” reads the analysis published by Akamai.

Retail 73

Retail Hacking Software Malware 73

Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

According to experts a vulnerability in the popular WordPress plugin Yuzo Related Posts is exploited by attackers to redirect users to malicious sites. The Yuzo Related Posts plugin was removed from the WordPress plugin store on March 30th, 2019. SecurityAffairs – WordPress, hacking). ” concludes WordFence.

Scams 87

Scams Advertising Authentication Firewall 87

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the continuing saga of the WordPress REST API vulnerability in WordPress 4.7 SiteLock has identified that at least one hacker has launched a campaign specifically attempting remote code execution (RCE) on WordPress websites. The website is running WordPress 4.7 The attacks appear to be blindly targeting WordPress 4.7

Backups 52

Backups Firewall Malware Hacking 52

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In Part One of our #AskSecPro series on WordPress Database Security, we learned about the anatomy of WordPress. Now that we have a firm understanding of the role the WordPress MySQL database plays in a WordPress installation, we can take a look at the various ways an adversary can exploit the mechanisms involved.

Backups 52

Backups Passwords Malware Risk 52

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Our malware scanner found the payload across multiple CMS platforms – WordPress, Joomla, Drupal – and multiple versions of said platforms. The injecting malware was caching system agnostic, targeting a variety of caching plugins: W3 Total Cache , WP Super Cache, and Falcon Cache on WordPress for example. 1 [dot] zaaaa3 [dot] xyz.

Malware 52

Malware Internet Internet Mobile 52

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With behavioral analysis, a scanner might look for things like a script opening outbound connections to an untrusted remote machine, or from a location inside WordPress where you wouldn’t normally expect outbound connections to originate. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag!

Malware 52

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Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2022

SecurityAffairs awarded as Best European Personal Cybersecurity Blog 2022 Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer Flagstar Bank discloses a data breach that impacted 1.5 Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

Small Business 80

Small Business Spyware Data breaches Surveillance 80

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As a WordPress website owner, it is imperative to understand the roles that each plays in your website’s security. Network Firewalls are a critical part of network security, and play an integral role in protecting the server(s) that your WordPress website is delivered from. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag!

Firewall 52

Firewall Software Internet Internet 52

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When it comes to malware scanning on a WordPress website, what makes the SiteLock® malware scanners different from the competition? I would venture to say that for WordPress website owners, doubly-so. Most WordPress website admins, especially when eCommerce is involved, are always seeking to make their website run faster and better.

Malware 52

Malware eCommerce Engineering 52

Security Affairs

JULY 15, 2023

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)

Spyware 91

Spyware Hacking Data breaches Mobile 91

Security Affairs

JUNE 26, 2020

The malicious script detected by the researchers was loaded from an e-store running the WooCommerce plugin for WordPress. The initial JavaScript loads the skimming code included in the EXIF metadata of the favicon.ico using an <img> tag, and specifically via the onerror event.

Advertising 96

Advertising Hacking Software Information Security 96

Security Affairs

JANUARY 21, 2024

million cryptojacking scheme arrested in Ukraine Cybercrime Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8

Artificial Intelligence 99

Artificial Intelligence VPN Hacking Firewall 99

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2023

Abandoned Eval PHP WordPress plugin abused to backdoor websites CISA adds MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog At least 2 critical infrastructure orgs breached by North Korea-linked hackers behind 3CX attack American Bar Association (ABA) suffered a data breach,1.4

Spyware 73

Spyware Ransomware Malware Data breaches 73

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

With respect to a WordPress website, external penetration testing will typically consist of one or more of the following methods: Network Scans. For example, when SiteLock gathers this information, it’s checked against our massive database of known vulnerabilities to establish which vulnerabilities apply to the specific WordPress website.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2023

The target sites are running digital content management systems like Magento, WooCommerce, WordPress, and Shopify, but contain a variety of vulnerabilities. The code used on the web skimming victims is designed to look like popular third-party services such as Google Tag Manager or Facebook Pixel.

Firewall 81

Firewall Ransomware Risk 81

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The exploit was used broadly and extensively, succeeding in causing numerous temporary service outages for WordPress websites across the world. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! In our next episode of Ask a Security Professional, we’ll be talking about Protocol-Based DDoS Attacks.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Helpfully, many of the faces in that photo have been tagged and associated with their respective Facebook profiles. 3, 2018, he posted a screenshot of someone logged into a WordPress site under the username Saim Raza — the same identity that’s been pimping Fud Co spam tools for close to a decade now.

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Software Phishing Cybercrime Accountability 239

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

Malware 78

Malware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 78

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

There are a number of different methods that can be used in the detection of malware, including outside-in “black box” analysis of the public-facing website source code, which I recently wrote about , and inside-out “white box” analysis of web applications like WordPress. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag!

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Then you can set up a business email address, develop high-level messaging for your business like a tag line, and design a logo or hire someone to do it for you. A website, which you can build with a site builder like Wix or a content management system (CMS) like WordPress. Do your digital paperwork.

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Marketing eCommerce Internet Internet 98

Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

And how to prevent it?

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The average cost of a data breach can exceed $100,000 for SMBs , and that doesn’t include the high price tag associated with repairing a business’s reputation and rebuilding customer trust. You can download a new copy of your CMS by going to the WordPress or Drupal site and downloading all your files.

Small Business 98

Small Business Cybercrime Malware Backups 98

Malwarebytes

MAY 13, 2021

The way it is injected in compromised sites is by editing the shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake PNG file. The file named Magento.png attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper PNG format for a valid image file.

Malware 108

Malware Hacking Software Cybercrime 108

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Over the last year I’ve led a multitude of security workshops aimed to educate entry-level WordPress users about website security. Message @SiteLock and use the #AskSecPro tag! Vendors continue to use the term SSL likely due to consumer familiarity with the term.

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SiteLock

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A quick search on exploit-db for “wordpress file upload” revealed over 100 known file upload vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins. This can be done using regular expressions to look for opening php tags or other strings that could alert to a malicious upload. Some of the most recent ones are shown below.

Malware 52

Malware Engineering Information Security Hacking 52

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In our series on managing WordPress updates , we’ve discussed how crappy it is when your website breaks, and examined lots of solutions to avoid it ever happening. How do you put a price tag on irrecoverable data loss? WordPress websites are made up of two kinds of data: a database, and lots of files. WordPress Site Files.

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