WordPress security

Credit Card Skimmer Hits WordPress Checkout Pages, Stealing Payment Data

Researchers analyzed a new stealthy credit card skimmer that targets WordPress checkout pages by injecting malicious JavaScript into the WordPress…

2 weeks ago

New WordPress Plugin That Weaponizes Legit Sites To Steal Customer Payment Data

Cybercriminals have developed PhishWP, a malicious WordPress plugin, to facilitate sophisticated phishing attacks, which enable attackers to create convincing replicas…

3 weeks ago

ClickFix Malware Infect Website Visitors Via Hacked WordPress Websites

Researchers have identified a new variant of the ClickFix fake browser update malware distributed through malicious WordPress plugins. These plugins,…

3 months ago

SocGholish Malware Attacking Windows Users Using Fake Browser Update

The SocGholish downloader has been in operation since 2017 and it is still evolving. This malware, which poses as a…

6 months ago

Mal.Metrica Malware Hijacks 17,000+ WordPress Sites

Infected websites mimic legitimate human verification prompts (CAPTCHAs) to trick users, who often request seemingly innocuous clicks, resembling past CAPTCHA…

9 months ago

Sign1 Malware Hijacked 39,000 WordPress Websites

A client's website was experiencing random pop-ups as server side scanner logs revealed a JavaScript injection related to Sign1, which…

10 months ago

WordPress Builder Plugin Flaw Exposes 3,300+ Websites To XSS Attack

A recent surge in attacks from a new malware campaign exploits a known vulnerability in the WordPress plugin Popup Builder, infecting over…

11 months ago

Hacked WordPress Sites Using Visitors’ Browsers For Distributed Brute Force Attacks

Researchers recently uncovered distributed brute force attacks on target WordPress websites using the browsers of innocent site visitors.  A recent increase…

11 months ago

100,000 WordPress Sites Impacted with Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) Flaw

KingComposer, a WordPress plugin found installed with over 100,000 WordPress sites found vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting. The vulnerability was…

5 years ago

Massive Hacking Campaign Targets WordPress Websites to Steal Database Credentials

Cybercriminals launched more than 130 million attacks aiming to harvest database credentials from 1.3 million Wordpress sites. In this massive…

5 years ago