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A critical security alert has been issued for users of multiple WordPress plugins after three new vulnerabilities were discovered on December 19th. These have been found to be caused by a failure to properly verify request parameters, allowing for classic SQL injection attacks.  Identifying the risks One of the discovered vulnerabilities in a plugin specifically […]

Suppose you are a hosting provider or just have one or more  WordPress websites. In that case, you will be interested to know that we have just activated a new database scanning and automatic cleaning solution called SQL Scanner module.  Why do you need this module? We needed to implement this feature because quite a significant percentage of website hacks don't actually […]

Hackers and cyberattack techniques are evolving every day. Hosting companies and every server owner should keep an eye on the cybersecurity news to prepare themselves and protect their systems against the new types of threats. That’s why BitNinja collects the hottest cybersecurity news and sends out a Cybersecurity Digest each month. Now, we’ve summarized the […]

As 2019 will be over soon, it’s time to stop for a while and look back on what happened this year. 2019 was a unique year at BitNinja (you’ll see on the results). We got closer to our mission – making the internet a safer place. However, we couldn’t have reached the successes mentioned below […]

An exploited CMS vulnerability or vulnerabilities to web-based attacks is a big security issue as one well-aimed attack can cause a data leak, data loss or make your server unavailable. These attacks need to be stopped before they even reach your server and the WAF 2.0 module can do that for you. This powerful defense […]

Here, at BitNinja we always keep a close look on the defended incidents in order to discover attack trends and new attack types. Currently, BitNinja protects over 5000 servers worldwide and we are effectively defending more than 50 millions incidents every week. Undoubtedly, we still see many “oldtimer” attack types between these incidents such as […]

A few years ago, our web hosting company experienced heavy difficulties with the different kinds of cyberattacks. The things became so bad that we started to lose customers because they obviously perceived the consequences of the vulnerable servers. We couldn’t bear it anymore and decided to take over the control of the cyberwar. That’s how […]

As we look back now, it is amazing to remember all the things we achieved together and all the threats BitNinja saved us from since the start of the year. Here’s a five minute summary of what we have been up to in 2018. Hacker-free new year to everyone! See you in 2019! Thank you […]

As a member of the BitNinja Development Team, one of our most important tasks is to develop the protection of BitNinja. When we deal with such a process we can see how an attack works or how a botnet can exploit a vulnerability. It's almost like watching these events behind the scenes. That's why this […]