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15 Jan

Hunting WordPress Malware Hidden in Double-Encoded Page Builder Content

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Hunting WordPress Malware Hidden in Double-Encoded Page Builder Content   A case study in persistence: When standard security tools fail, detective work begins.     The Problem   We have a customer who...

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12 Jan

92% of Attackers Are Invisible to Your Server’s Default Defense

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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    92% of Attackers Are Invisible to Your Server's Default Defense How threshold-based security tools like Fail2ban and Imunify360 miss the vast majority of malicious traffic January 2026     The Promise   Fail2ban and Imunify360 are staples...

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12 Jan

Why User-Agent Blocking Doesn’t Work: We Caught One IP Pretending to Be 4 Different Bots

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Why User-Agent Blocking Doesn't Work: We Caught One IP Pretending to Be 4 Different Bots January 2026   We recently caught a single IP address pretending to be four different legitimate bots—all in...

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05 Jan

The Hidden Cost of Compromised Customers

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news, Trends
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The Hidden Cost of Compromised Customers   Why Hosting Companies Are Losing the Abuse Battle — And How to Flip the Script   January 2026   Every hosting company has an abuse queue. And every abuse...

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29 Nov

16.29 Million Access Logs Analyzed: What We Learned About Global WordPress Attacks

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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16.29 Million Access Logs Analyzed: What We Learned About Global WordPress Attacks November 29, 2025   Over the past 11 days, our global threat detection infrastructure has been running hot—processing 16.29 million access...

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25 Mar

Our Insight into the Sign1 Malware

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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First, I'd like to compliment Sucuri on a fine, detailed analysis of the Sign1 Malware.   Kathy Zant has also analyzed this on her YouTube channel.   A quick recap first, in the unlikely...

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14 Mar

Hackers still using old tactics

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Sometimes, while determining root cause of a website infection, we see many new methods. However, recently we've been seeing the same old tactics hackers have been using for years.   A recent...

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03 Jan

The Real Attack Vector Responsible for 60% of Hacked WordPress Sites in 2023

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Introduction  WordPress Security is full of myths that have no basis in reality or data. A particularly pervasive one is the unsubstantiated claim that “95% of WordPress hacks are due to outdated...

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06 Dec

Could Your WordPress Security Plugin be Lying?

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Many people have received notifications from their cloud server provider indicating their server's IP address has been reported as attacking other websites.   We Watch Your Website's services have been used frequently...

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04 Oct

WordPress Sites Attacked via Management Consoles

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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In the past 30 days we’ve seen a new attack vector on WordPress websites - management consoles.   First, a disclaimer. The infections discussed here are NOT the result of faulty programming...

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14 Jul

How We Identified Nearly 150K Hacked WordPress Sites in 60 Days

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Almost 60K infected sites had installed a WordPress security plugin with a malware scanner.   This report is intended to answer questions and add context to our recently announced discovery of tens...

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22 Jan

One way hackers hack WordPress sites

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Okay, WordPress people, check this out by Brian Krebs:   https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/crime-shop-sells-hacked-logins-to-other-crime-shops/   What's important to note is this:   "One example is Genesis Market, where customers can search for stolen credentials and authentication cookies from a...

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29 Dec

WordPress Security: My take on wp-vcd.php

by Thomas J. Raef
in Uncategorized
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I understand that millions of people are concerned about WordPress Security. I also understand that people tend to follow others when it comes to things they don't fully understand -...

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10 Nov

WordPress malware – redirection with trasnaltemyrecords

by Thomas J. Raef
in Uncategorized
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Since the beginning of November, I've been working on a number of websites (271) that all redirect to various sites, such as: Automated Malware Remediation As I started digging through the WordPress...

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01 Nov

hi victim – latest spam tricks

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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Latest SPAM tricks In your work, is there anything that would stop you from reaching your goals?   Probably not.   Hackers, or cyber criminals as some call them, are the same way. Their income...

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04 Sep

Hackers modifying Wordfence files

by Thomas J. Raef
in Uncategorized
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We've been seeing this since June and have just made time to blog about it. Website malware hiding in plain sight Website malware has always been a moving target, but now the...

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05 Jun

Why Hackers Want YOUR WordPress Website

by Thomas J. Raef
in Trends
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We hear it all the time, “What do hackers want with my little WordPress website?” Or, “How did they manage to find my WordPress website?” We’ll address both of those issues here. First,...

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18 May

Avada WordPress Theme – Please Update Immediately

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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We just received a notification: We are getting in touch to let you know about a stored XSS and a CSRF vulnerability in the Avada WordPress Theme versions prior to 5.1.5...

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11 Apr

Root cause analysis on /wp-base-seo/wp-seo-main.php

by Thomas J. Raef
in Recent hacking news
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I had been preparing this write-up for over a week now, but I see that SiteLock beat me to the punch in their blog. As some of you know, we specialize...

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21 Mar

Google says website infections up 32%

by Thomas J. Raef
in Trends
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Google recently published a blog post stating that website infections were up in 32% in 2016 compared to the previous year. Some of you will be thinking, Yeah, you want to scare everyone...

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Latest Posts

  • Hunting WordPress Malware Hidden in Double-Encoded Page Builder Content January 15, 2026
  • 92% of Attackers Are Invisible to Your Server’s Default Defense January 12, 2026
  • Why User-Agent Blocking Doesn’t Work: We Caught One IP Pretending to Be 4 Different Bots January 12, 2026
  • The Hidden Cost of Compromised Customers January 5, 2026
  • 16.29 Million Access Logs Analyzed: What We Learned About Global WordPress Attacks November 29, 2025
  • Our Insight into the Sign1 Malware March 25, 2024

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