Tag: Website Security
Hackers Change WordPress Siteurl to Pastebin
Last Friday, we reported on a hack that used a vulnerability in the popular WP GDPR Compliance plugin to change WordPress siteurl settings to erealitatea[.]net. At that time it was not clear who was behind the massive attack, since the erealitatea[.]net domain didn’t work and the infection simply broke the compromised sites. Our SiteCheck scanner…
Backdoor Uses Paste Site to Host Payload
Finding backdoors is one of the biggest challenges of a website security analyst, as backdoors are designed to be hidden in case the malware is found and removed. Website Backdoors A backdoor is a piece of malware that attackers leave behind to allow them access back into a website. Hackers like to inject code into different locations to…
Outdated Duplicator Plugin RCE Abused
We’re seeing an increase in the number of cases where attackers are disabling WordPress sites by removing or rewriting its wp-config.php file. These cases are all linked to the same vulnerable software: WordPress Duplicator Plugin. Versions lower than 1.2.42 of Snap Creek Duplicator plugin are vulnerable to a Remote Code Execution attack, where the malicious visitor is…
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 don’t already have it, you can download the Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Security Hardening plugin directly…