BitNinja received the Business Intelligence Group’s BIG Award for Business and was named 2020 Small Business of the Year. The BIG’s annual programme rewards companies, products, and people that are leading their respective industries. “It’s a great honor to be named as a winner of the BIG Award. This trophy shows us that hard work, […]
Have you ever wondered what BitNinja can do if an account on your server has been stolen or someone gets access via a hacked SSH? Perhaps some customers store their passwords on a sticky note, or, for example, an account has been purchased to gain access to the server to infect it with malware uploads. […]
After last year’s €500,000 seed investment, BitNinja has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding, led by Lead Ventures. Our history BitNinja was founded in 2014 and became very profitable by the following year. In December, 2015 we were one of the eight selected start-ups in Cyber London’s second accelerator programme. In November, 2019 we […]
On 2 September 2020 arstechnica reported a zero-day vulnerability in a WordPress plugin. File Manager helps users manage their files on the website. It was downloaded 700,000 times and more than half of the customers are affected. The vulnerability allowed hackers to execute commands and upload files on a website. How did the BitNinja team patch the vulnerability? We discovered the exploit with our Defense Robot. […]
The increasing number of data breaches raises new concerns for all companies. According to Statista, there were 1,473 million data breaches causing 164 million exposed records in the US in 2019. Many companies are being sued for data breaches and since the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), these cybersecurity lawsuits run into […]
Botnets are a major threat for web hosting providers and basically for every server. They are the fundamentals of cybercrime in the dark industry of hackers. A botnet is a group of infected computers (aka bots or zombie machines) controlled by a hacker, the botmaster. Zombie machines can be personal computers, mobile devices, or even […]
28 Febr, 2020 16:44 PM UPDATE: We know that it was a hard decision for the organizers, and we feel really sorry that we can't meet with the wonderful cloud community in the Europa Park this year. However, it was the right decision because security always comes first. We, however, have a plan B. 😉 […]
Why should you visit tech conferences? As our world is changing quickly, new types of technologies are constantly being made. To keep up with the rapid pace of the technology changes and to learn more about the most advanced solutions, we highly recommend everyone to visit at least 1 tech conference every year. Fortunately, there […]
On 19 February 2020, Wordfence reported a highly critical vulnerability found in the popular Duplicator plugin for WordPress. This plugin is useful when users want to migrate and copy WordPress sites. With Duplicator, sysadmins can create a new copy of the site and the generated file can be downloaded from the WP dashboard. WordPress Duplicator Plugin Zero-day […]
