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HOME / REPORTS / SiteCheck Mid-Year 2024 Report Download Report PDF Introduction Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote website scanners may not provide as comprehensive of a scan as server-side scanners, they allow users to instantly identify malicious code and […]
Our Website Threat Research Report details our findings and analysis of emerging and ongoing trends and threats in the website security landscape. This is a collection of the observations collected by Sucuri’s Research…
Learn about the PCI DSS compliance requirements, risks and impacts of non-compliance, and ecommerce security with our PCI DSS compliance checklist.
Phishing attacks can seriously harm individuals, corporations, and website owners. Learn about the common types and phish techniques, how to spot the signs of a phisher, and steps to prevent phishing.
Understand the risk of Broken Access Control on your website and learn how to prevent it with our comprehensive guide. We cover real-world examples of common access control vulnerabilities, how attackers exploit these weaknesses, and effective preventive measures to protect your site.
WordPress is the most popular website platform, making it a target. Learn basic WordPress security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.
The latest trends in website malware with Sucuri’s SiteCheck 2023 Mid-Year Report. We summarize the most common malware detected on infected websites in the first half of the year…
WordPress is the most popular website platform, making it a target. Learn basic WordPress security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.
Learn how to configure PHP-FPM to create secure VPS environments for multiple websites. Steps for configuring NGINX and creating your own setup to reduce the risk of cross-site contamination.
Learn about WooCommerce security. We provide step by step instructions on how to secure your WooCommerce site to protect it from malware, hackers, and website vulnerabilities.
Learn what a CSRF attack is, how cross site request forgery works, examples, impacts, and the difference between CSRF and XSS. We also provide steps on how to prevent attacks to your environment.
Learn what MageCart is, how MageCart works to infect an ecommerce website, and the different types of attacks. We also provide steps to detect and cleanup MageCart malware infections from your site.
A guide for new Sucuri customers illustrating how to activate the website firewall, server side monitoring, backups, and features of the Sucuri dashboard.
The AnonymousFox hack comes in many forms, using a suite of hacker tools to take advantage of website vulnerabilitites.
Our Website Threat Research Report details our findings and analysis of emerging and ongoing trends and threats in the website security landscape. This is a collection of the observations collected by Sucuri’s Research…
Join us on April 5th as we cover the latest findings from our 2022 Hacked Website Threat Report. We’ll shed light on some of the most common tactics and techniques we saw within compromised website environments.
A guide for new Sucuri customers illustrating how to activate the website firewall, server side monitoring, backups, and features of the Sucuri dashboard.
The OWASP Top Ten List has been updated this year! We outline the changes and what this means for website security best practices
Learn about the 2020 OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities for website security and protect your site from security risks.
Is your website blocklisted? Learn how to remove website blocklist warnings from McAfee SiteAdvisor. Restore your website and reclaim visitors, revenue, and SEO rankings.
Learn how to identify security issues and take steps to recover your traffic & conversions. Follow our guidance to eensure your Magento site is PCI compliant.
Learn how to manage a Drupal security incident including steps to scan your site, fix malicious code, and harden your site with recommended tools and actions.
Understand how to keep your Joomla website safe from hackers and use best practices to protect your visitors and content from compromise.
Learn basic Drupal security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.
Join our program and earn commission for referring Sucuri customers. Perfect for webmasters, developers, hosts, marketers, agencies, and freelancers.
Learn how to clean a hacked Joomla! site on your own, including post-hack actions.
Help your web agency and your clients by providing website security solutions with clear expectations.
Understand some key points to consider when removing the Google blocklist from your website.
Discover how to remove Google blocklist warnings from your site by fixing hacks and requesting a review.
Review our infographic for steps to identify, fix, and protect a hacked Drupal site.
Find out how to deal with a hacked Magento site and ecommerce security by following our infographic.
Based on our guide to fixing a hacked WordPress site, including steps to discover, fix, and protect your site.
Learn security best practices for WordPress websites with our infographic.
Understand key takeaways from our 2016-Q1 report on trends in website security and active malware campaigns.
Understand key takeaways from our 2016-Q2 report on trends in website security and active malware campaigns.
Learn how to manage a Drupal security incident including steps to scan your site, fix malicious code, and harden your site with recommended tools and actions.
Learn basic security techniques and actionable steps that will help to improve your security posture and reduce the risk of a compromise.
The AnonymousFox hack comes in many forms, using a suite of hacker tools to take advantage of website vulnerabilitites.
Web application firewalls (WAFs) are an important tool to keep your site safe from attacks. Learn how WAFs work, the different types available, and find the best firewall solution for your website.
Website security is a top priority for any website owner or webmaster. Learn how to secure and protect your site from hackers with our in-depth guide.
Learn about the PCI DSS compliance requirements, risks and impacts of non-compliance, and ecommerce security with our PCI DSS compliance checklist.
A guide for new Sucuri customers illustrating how to activate the website firewall, server side monitoring, backups, and features of the Sucuri dashboard.
A guide for new Sucuri customers illustrating how to activate the website firewall, server side monitoring, backups, and features of the Sucuri dashboard.
Website malware can come in many different types and from many places. Learn what website malware is.
Learn how to quickly fix, clean & secure a hacked Joomla! site by removing malware and protect against future attacks with this easy step-by-step guide.
Learn how to configure PHP-FPM to create secure VPS environments for multiple websites. Steps for configuring NGINX and creating your own setup to reduce the risk of cross-site contamination.
Learn about brute force attacks and how you can prevent brute force and protect your website.
A guide to website security warnings and specific steps to fully restore your website before requesting a review from Google or any other blocklist authority.
The OWASP Top Ten List has been updated this year! We outline the changes and what this means for website security best practices
Cross-site scripting (XSS) occurs when hackers execute malicious JavaScript within a victim’s browser.
Learn how to identify security issues and take steps to recover your traffic & conversions. Follow our guidance to eensure your Magento site is PCI compliant.
Learn how to activate SSL/HTTPS on your site. A tutorial on using Certbot and Let’s Encrypt to enable a free SSL certificate on your self-hosted website.
WordPress is the most popular website platform, making it a target. Learn basic WordPress security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.
Understand the risk of Broken Access Control on your website and learn how to prevent it with our comprehensive guide. We cover real-world examples of common access control vulnerabilities, how attackers exploit these weaknesses, and effective preventive measures to protect your site.
Welcome to our guide on identifying and avoiding every type of imaginable scam from social engineering to pharmaceuticals to parcel fraud.
Learn about the 2020 OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities for website security and protect your site from security risks.
Learn what a CSRF attack is, how cross site request forgery works, examples, impacts, and the difference between CSRF and XSS. We also provide steps on how to prevent attacks to your environment.
Learn basic Drupal security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.
Learn how to identify and clean a hacked website, including backdoors, server files and database entries. This guide covers detection, removal, and ongoing protection.
Phishing attacks can seriously harm individuals, corporations, and website owners. Learn about the common types and phish techniques, how to spot the signs of a phisher, and steps to prevent phishing.
Learn about WooCommerce security. We provide step by step instructions on how to secure your WooCommerce site to protect it from malware, hackers, and website vulnerabilities.
Spam posts and comments are not complicated malware infections, but they can severely damage a website’s reputation. Learn what they are and how to remove the infection from WordPress.
The Sucuri team maintains a free WordPress security plugin. This guide will explain how to install, activate, and configure advanced settings in the plugin.
Learn what MageCart is, how MageCart works to infect an ecommerce website, and the different types of attacks. We also provide steps to detect and cleanup MageCart malware infections from your site.
DDoS attacks disrupt a website’s availability, causing downtime for hours or days. Learn what happens in various types of DDoS attacks and how to protect against them.
Is your website blocklisted? Learn how to remove website blocklist warnings from McAfee SiteAdvisor. Restore your website and reclaim visitors, revenue, and SEO rankings.
WordPress is the most popular website platform, making it a target. Learn basic WordPress security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.
Learn what SQL injection is and how it works. See the different types and examples of attacks, and find out how you can protect and clean your website from an SQL injection.
Join our program and earn commission for referring Sucuri customers. Perfect for webmasters, developers, hosts, marketers, agencies, and freelancers.
Understand how to keep your Joomla website safe from hackers and use best practices to protect your visitors and content from compromise.
WordPress is the most popular website platform, making it a target. Learn basic WordPress security techniques and actionable steps to reduce the risk of a compromise.
Help your web agency and your clients by providing website security solutions with clear expectations.
Learn how to clean a hacked Joomla! site on your own, including post-hack actions.
Understand key takeaways from our 2016-Q2 report on trends in website security and active malware campaigns.
Discover how to remove Google blocklist warnings from your site by fixing hacks and requesting a review.
Based on our guide to fixing a hacked WordPress site, including steps to discover, fix, and protect your site.
Understand how the REST API vulnerability works, affecting WordPress core versions 4.7 and 4.7.1.
Learn about how to improve your website security posture with this infographic.
Learn how to clean a hacked Joomla! site on your own, including post-hack actions.
Understand some key points to consider when removing the Google blocklist from your website.
The roots and growth of Sucuri products, people, and technology since 2008.
Key takeaways from our webinar to help your agency clients by providing website security solutions.
Understand key takeaways from our 2016-Q1 report on trends in website security and active malware campaigns.
Find out how to deal with a hacked Magento site and ecommerce security by following our infographic.
Understand key takeaways from our 2016-Q3 report on trends in website security and active malware campaigns.
Learn security best practices for WordPress websites with our infographic.
Review our infographic for steps to identify, fix, and protect a hacked Drupal site.
During this webinar, Alycia explains how marketing professionals can easily add security to their diverse toolkit. This skill helps organizations prepare for incidents and prevent others…..
Have you ever thought that your website might not be so important and just too small to need website protection of any kind?… Time to think again! We will discuss some of the reasons why every website big or small needs security…..
How does SEO spam get into a website and why? This webinar will discuss what attackers gain from it and how to deal with an attack effectively…..
What is website malware? In this webinar, we’ll cover the most common website malware types, what various samples look like so you can recognize them, and also show you how they work…..
During this webinar, we’ll discuss some basic security concepts for your online store that include what tools you’ll need to remain PCI compliant and keeping your data safe…..
All content is not created equally. Reducing the time it takes for each piece of data to travel from the host server to the client will provide lower latency and a more optimized user experience. Ultimately, this helps avoid dropoffs in users as a result of extended load times…..
If your website has been blocklisted by Google, you can instantly lose 95% of your traffic. Sucuri Digital Marketing Manager, Alycia Mitchell, provides a step by step guide to fixing Google blocklist warnings. This webinar will give you the knowledge to act fast and get rid of those big red warnings on your website…..
During this webinar, we’ll explain how many of the PCI compliance standards for safe handling of payment card data are closely aligned with the data retention policies of the new GDPR regulations – from managing personal data, potential breach implications, and properly logging your systems. Also, we will share some best practices and what to expect….
Join us as we provide insights on the top open-source CMS security, out-of-date software, and specific malware families that we see trending on hacked websites…..
Join us as we delve into the minds of hackers to explain targeted attacks, random attack, and SEO attacks. Find out why bad actors target websites.
Learn how you or your agency can account for security with your client projects. Presented by Sucuri Co-Founder, Dre Armeda, this webinar shows how you can get involved and help clients who are not aware of some of the security risks involved with managing a website…..
Join us on April 5th as we cover the latest findings from our 2022 Hacked Website Threat Report. We’ll shed light on some of the most common tactics and techniques we saw within compromised website environments.
Sucuri Marketing Analytics & SEO Specialist, Alycia Mitchell, teaches you how to keep your Google Analytics data clean and use it to uncover vulnerabilities and compromises while optimizing your website’s visibility…..
Learn why a website hack can be devastating to your business or web project, including a few key points you might not have considered.
If you’re considering security for your site or are new to our services, this webinar will guide you through Sucuri’s simple setup processes. Potential notifications, support options for various scenarios, and ways that you can also work to keep your site malware-free will be discussed…..
Tony Perez, CEO of Sucuri, discusses how websites get hacked. Last month we learned the various impacts of a website compromise. Tony goes in depth about the tactics attackers employ to compromise websites so you can understand how to think about the areas that are most important and implement security controls to help mitigate risk potential…..
Josh discusses the latest trends in malware and credit card scraping tactics…..
Join us as we discuss the ins and outs of website security. Using good security practices as a website owner helps keep the entire web environment as clean and safe as possible…..
A lot can be done with our API to make your life easier and more automated. In this webinar, you’ll learn just a few things that can be done with our API. Plus a sneak peek at things to come in the next version….
Learn the important steps to take to identify Magento security issues and address ecommerce concerns. Sucuri Security Analyst, Cesar Anjos, walks you through steps…
HOME / REPORTS / SiteCheck Mid-Year 2024 Report Download Report PDF Introduction Conducting an external website scan for indicators of compromise is one of the easiest ways to identify security issues. While remote website scanners may not provide as comprehensive of a scan as server-side scanners, they allow users to instantly identify malicious code and […]
Our Website Threat Research Report details our findings and analysis of emerging and ongoing trends and threats in the website security landscape. This is a collection of the observations collected by Sucuri’s Research…
The latest trends in website malware with Sucuri’s SiteCheck 2023 Mid-Year Report. We summarize the most common malware detected on infected websites in the first half of the year…
Our Website Threat Research Report details our findings and analysis of emerging and ongoing trends and threats in the website security landscape. This is a collection of the observations collected by Sucuri’s Research…
Our 2022 Q3 SiteCheck Report details our findings from the past quarter to identify the most common malware infections and security problems detected during a remote SiteCheck scan, including examples of trending malware on hacked websites.
Our 2022 Q2 SiteCheck Report details our findings from the past quarter to identify the most common malware infections detected by SiteCheck and provides specific examples to help webmasters understand how to find these detections in their own environments.
Our 2019 Threat Research Report is a deep dive into our logs, and collected analysis. It summarizes the latest tactics, techniques, and procedures seen by the Sucuri Malware Research team.
The Web Professional Security Survey is produced to better understand how agencies run their businesses and the challenges they face when dealing with security incidents.
Our 2021 Threat Research Report details our findings and analysis of trends and threats in the website security landscape. This collection of the observations is made by Sucuri’s Research and Remediation experts.
This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the GoDaddy Security / Sucuri team, which includes the Incident Response Team (IRT) and the Malware Research Team (MRT). It analyzes over 33,592 cleanup requests and shares statistics associated with hacked websites…..
The Web Professional Security Survey is produced to better understand how agencies run their businesses and the challenges they face when dealing with security incidents. This report uses data collected in 2018…..
Our yearly Hacked Website Trend Report covers current statistics of website hacks, including malware families and Content Management Systems (CMS). This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Sucuri Remediation Group (RG) and analyzes over 34k infected websites…..
Our Quarterly Hacked Website Trend Report covers current statistics of website hacks including malware families and Content Management Systems(CMS).This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Sucuri Remediation Group(RG), which includes the Incident Response Team(IRT) and the Malware Research Team(MRT). It analyzes over 11 k infected ….
Our Quarterly Hacked Website Trend Report covers current statistics of website hacks including malware families and Content Management Systems(CMS).This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Sucuri Remediation Group(RG), which includes the Incident Response Team(IRT) and the Malware Research Team(MRT).It analyzes over 11 k infected ….
Our Quarterly Hacked Website Trend Report covers current statistics of website hacks including malware families and Content Management Systems(CMS).This report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Sucuri Remediation Group…
Were your Google Ads just disapproved after a website compromise? Or, are you seeing policy violations for malicious or unwanted software in your Google Ads…
In November, 2022, my colleague Ben Martin described how hackers were using zipped files and encrypted WordPress options stored in the database to inject SocGholish…
Attackers are always finding new and creative ways to compromise websites and maintain their foothold in environments. This is frequently done via the use of…
What is a Content Security Policy (CSP)? A Content Security Policy (CSP) is a security feature used to help protect websites and web apps from…
Our team at Sucuri has been tracking a massive WordPress infection campaign since 2017 — but up until recently never bothered to give it a…
Nowadays, the term DDoS raises the heart rate of most webmasters. Though many don’t know exactly what a DDoS attack is, they might be familiar…
Did you just try to access your site and encounter a Deceptive Site Ahead warning? This error message occurs when the browser believes your website…
Critical errors on any system can be extremely frustrating. But if you’ve recently encountered the “There has been a critical error on this website” message…
Regular website backups are the foundation of a solid website security plan. In the event of data loss or malware infection, restoring a WordPress backup…
Sure, there are tons of one-click installers floating around for WordPress. But they’re not always the most secure option — and can still be tedious…
Imagine for a moment that you’re searching for a topic. You find what you’re looking for on the first page of the search results and…
A frustrating interruption to anyone’s day is the infamous HTTP Error 500 internal server error message. When it happens not only do you lose traffic…
Hacked websites are known to result in a plethora of headaches for webmasters, including malicious redirects, broken links, and unwanted spam content. But did you…
In June 2022, we shared information about the ongoing NDSW/NDSX malware campaign which has been one of the most common website infections detected and cleaned…
Recently, Avast’s researchers Pavel Novák and Jan Rubín posted a detailed writeup about the “Parrot TDS” campaign involving more than 16,500 infected websites. Such massive…
If you’ve recently discovered that your WordPress site is redirecting other sites or unwanted ads, then your website may have been hacked. The WordPress redirect…
We all know why bad actors infect sites: monetary gain, boosts in SEO ratings for their malware or spam campaigns and a number of other…
In this post, we look at how to use WPScan. The tool provides you a better understanding of your WordPress website and its vulnerabilities. Be…
What does your WordPress site look like to hackers? Would it be tough to crack? Or does it have unlocked doors and unlatched windows just waiting for someone…
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Before Sucuri, we had limited visibility into security threats and we spent a lot of time investigating and manually cleaning up breaches. Now we can get ahead of security issues and focus our attention elsewhere-which is a huge help when you have 50+ websites to support.
ITW Consulting
When it comes to website security, we want to provide our customers with the most exemplary service available. That’s why we have partnered with Sucuri. To expand on our commitment to offer only the safest hosting environment, Sucuri offers the best website malware cleanup, protection, and monitoring services in the business.
Vanessa Vasile, InMotion Hosting
Sucuri is more of an insurance policy to prevent problems. It does all of the work for us by blocking all things malicious. We are a web hosting provider, so how would it look if our own site was compromised or down?
Anton Resnick, Webhosting.net
