Criminals Monetizing Attacks Against Unpatched WordPress Sites

Criminals have inevitably begun to attempt to monetize attacks against WordPress sites still vulnerable to a severe REST API endpoint vulnerability silently patched in the recent 4.7.2 security update. While more than one million websites have been defaced, researchers are now beginning to see so...

One Third of Drug-Related Searches Lead to Illicit Pharmacy Sites

Researchers at the University of Cambridge will present evidence of what they say is wide spread manipulation of search results that direct unwitting Web surfers to dodgy and illicit online pharmacy sites. The research, which will be presented at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium in San Francisc...