In an interview with Smashing Magazine our CoFounder (now Head of Security Products at GoDaddy) Tony Perez was asked the following question. What Makes WordPress Vulnerable? “Here’s the simple answer. Old versions of WordPress, along with theme and plugin vulnerabilities,…
When our tools don’t automatically detect and clean malicious code, that’s when we start our investigation process—and the majority of these research findings end up on the blog or as a Labs note. However, other times we update our tools…
Before we get into the details of “Cryptocurrency Mining Malware”, we need to understand first what cryptocurrency is and what miners are. What is Cryptocurrency? Cryptocurrency is best thought of as digital currency and it only exists on computers. It…
These days, we consider a malware campaign massive if it affects a couple thousand websites. However, back in the day when Sucuri first started its operations, the scale of infections was significantly larger — and it was quite typical to…
If you have an ecommerce website, you are certainly concerned about its security. Business revenue depends on your online presence and having a website compromise is far from desirable. In order to have a successful ecommerce business, you need to…
Cookies! I LOVE Cookies. Oatmeal raisin are one of my particular favorite flavors. However, we’re not here to talk about baked goods as much as I’d love to. We’re here to talk about itty bitty little files stored on your…
A website owner recently reached out to us about a pop-up advertisement problem on their website which occurred any time someone clicked anywhere on the web page. This irritating pop-up didn’t come from malware placed in the website’s files or…
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an attack that focuses on making the website unavailable to its legitimate users. DDoS attacks can produce service interruptions, introduce large response delays, and cause various business losses. Denial-of-Service Attacks result in two ways…