A second vulnerability in a high-profile WordPress plugin has come under active exploitation in the span of a week, ZDNet has learned from WordPress security firm Defiant. Attacks are currently ...

In my last few posts I’ve pondered the issue of how insecure WordPress installations have become. Here’s an interesting thing to try if you run a WordPress site; install the 404 to 301 plugin and in ...

WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world — and the most hacked. Just last month, hackers engaged in a “feeding frenzy” at the expense of WordPress sites across the web, exploiting a ...

Today's top WordPress malware threat is a criminal operation known as WP-VCD, currently responsible for the vast majority of hacked WordPress sites, according to a Wordfence report shared exclusively ...

WordPress is currently attacked by a new plugin bug, triggering an internet-wide hacking spree. On Friday, Sept. 4, Defiant, the company behind the Wordfence web firewall, said that millions of ...

Hackers recently attempted to take over tens of thousands of WordPress sites through exploiting significant vulnerabilities inclusive of multiple zero-day plugins that allow them to create rogue ...