Concerned about how vulnerable WordPress plugins are putting your website at risk? Do you know? Vulnerable plugins are the biggest reason why WordPress sites are hacked. In fact, 55.9% of the attacks on WordPress are due to vulnerable plugins. So do you stop using plugins altogether? In website development, it’s hard to build and run…

If your website is not relevant to people in certain countries, you expect to see little or no traffic from those places. Then you see a sudden surge, your server resources get exhausted and your site is affected.  Turns out, the traffic is caused by hackers and bots. Many website administrators then turn to block…

If one of your website visitors reports seeing spam links on your website, there is a good chance your WordPress website has been attacked. Scan your website for malware, and remove the spam and injected malware in one click. Some typical symptoms of WordPress spam link injection are:  It is a common hack piggybacking on…

Your website is valuable: for you and for your site’s visitors. And also, for hackers. To build good defences against malicious attacks, you need a no-nonsense guide on how to protect website from hackers.  This is that hacker protection guide!  How are we so confident? MalCare protects 25000+ websites, and our support team ferrets out…

Several hacks occur due to entirely preventable reasons: updates not done in time, insecure passwords, and so on.  How do we know this? We have helped 25000+ hacked WordPress sites and have significant experience with website security.  In this website security essential guide, we’ll show you how to secure a website: But even more importantly,…

Contact Form 7 is one of the most popular WordPress plugins with almost 10 million active installs. Over the years, it has been revealed to have several major security flaws. Unsurprisingly, these vulnerabilities have caused many sites to be hacked.  In particular, there’s one from 7 years ago – the privilege escalation vulnerability. Other vulnerabilities…

There are systems that are hard to hack into, but more often than not, websites get hacked because they are vulnerable, and they don’t have basic security in place.  In this article, we are going to talk about how to harden your WordPress site.  TL;DR: Secure your website with MalCare, an all-in-one security suite for…

Imagine the next year and think of all the potential successes. You see your profits doubling and you spend more time with your loved ones. One problem: Your site keeps getting hacked. You have to spend hours getting it cleaned. And cleanups are expensive.  No one wants to live under the fear of a hack….