Joomla Account Creation Vulnerability
The Joomla team released a patch for a serious security vulnerability affecting all Joomla versions from 3.4.4 and up. If you’re using one of these versions of Joomla, you’re encouraged to update...
View ArticleJoomla Exploits in the Wild Against CVE-2016-8870 and CVE-2016-8869
Exactly 3 days ago, the Joomla team issued a patch for a high-severity vulnerability that allows remote users to create accounts and increase their privileges on any Joomla site. Both issues combined...
View ArticleAsk Sucuri: How to Stop Brute Force Attacks?
Ask Sucuri: My site is under a brute force attack. What can I do? How can we solve this password guessing problem known as brute forcing? This is a common question we get from users of our WordPress...
View ArticleHacked Website Report – 2016/Q3
Today we are proud to release our quarterly Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q3. This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Sucuri Remediation Group (RG), which includes the Incident...
View ArticleWordPress Performance Optimization Guide
Since launching our website performance testing tool we have been getting a lot of questions about how to improve the speed and performance of WordPress websites. Many website owners are not aware how...
View ArticleWordPress REST API Vulnerability Abused in Defacement Campaigns
WordPress 4.7.2 was released two weeks ago, including a fix for a severe vulnerability in the WordPress REST API. We have been monitoring our WAF network and honeypots closely to see how and when the...
View ArticleRCE Attempts Against the Latest WordPress REST API Vulnerability
We are starting to see remote command execution (RCE) attempts trying to exploit the latest WordPress REST API Vulnerability. These RCE attempts started today after a few days of attackers (mostly...
View ArticleIntroducing the New Sucuri Customer Dashboard
Over the course of the last year, our teams have been getting creative and making a collaborative effort to improve the experience of our customer dashboard. Website security is multifaceted and we...
View ArticleSucuri Enhances Security by Disabling TLS Version 1.0 and 1.1
Protecting our users’ information and privacy is extremely important to us. As a cloud-based security service, we are fully committed to complying with the PCI Data Security Standards (PCI DSS)...
View ArticleProduct Update: Sucuri Firewall in Singapore and Amsterdam
Over three years ago, we transitioned the Sucuri Firewall (WAF) away from the cloud and expanded it to run on top of our own Anycast content delivery network (CDN). We provide security for websites...
View ArticleSucuri’s 10th Anniversary
It feels like yesterday, but it has been 10 years since the domain sucuri.net was registered. Happy 10th Birthday, Sucuri! For us, 2009 marks the birth of the brand as it represents the day when the...
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