Tag: Wordfence
Botnet of Infected WordPress Sites Attacking WordPress Sites
The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, which attempt XML-RPC authentication to other WordPress sites in order to access privileged accounts. Between Wordfence’s brute force protection and the premium real-time…
Video: WordCamp Atlanta Security Panel with Wordfence
In April, Wordfence sponsored WordCamp Atlanta and several of our team members attended the event. While there, we held a capture the flag (CTF) contest, which helps WordPress site owners learn to think like a hacker so that they can better defend their websites. This post is Copyright 2018 Defiant, Inc. and was published on…
Introducing Wordfence Agency Solutions
Throughout 2018, we have had many conversations with agencies and other organizations protecting a large number of WordPress sites with Wordfence. You’ve told us what you need to be more successful, and we’ve responded with many changes to both our licensing and our capabilities. This post is Copyright 2018 Defiant, Inc. and was published on…
Meet the Defiant Team
In August, most of our team attended DefCon, a hacker conference in Las Vegas attended by tens of thousands of security professionals. All of us work remotely, so it is always really special to spend time together as a team. This post is Copyright 2018 Defiant, Inc. and was published on the wordfence.com official blog.…