Important Vulnerability on Advanced Custom Fields Plugin for WordPress

WP-VCD is a hacking campaign that’s responsible for the vast majority of WordPress malware infections. It has launched massive campaigns that have been very effective. Conducted on weekends, when many security staff are off the job, its campaigns have infected around two million WordPress sites. 

We’re pleased to announce that a new version of Imunify360, an automated security solution for Linux servers, has been scheduled for gradual rollout from our production repository and will be available for all customers in about two weeks or less. If you’d like to get it earlier, see instruction at the end of the post.

Imunify360 has six core components: Web Application Firewall, Linux Malware Scanner, Proactive Defense, IDS/IPS, WebShield, and Cloud-Based Security. The last component, Cloud-Based Security, runs according to what we call heuristics. 

In Imunify360, heuristics are a set of rules based on information coming in from thousands of Imunify-protected servers all over the world. These servers send threat information to the Imunify cloud server, where it’s automatically processed by dozens of scripts. It’s also manually processed by our Analytics team. 

At 11am EST on Friday 3 April, we’ll be conducting a live webinar on the new features and updates of Imunify360. Sign up and join the conversation on what’s new with our automated server protection suite.

The recording of the webinar is available here.

If you’re using Imunify360 on your servers, you’ve got a powerful system for cleaning up malware that’s also safe. If you use the recommended default settings, the sites you host will stay up and running. 

Your backups will be easy and reliable as well. That’s because Imunify360 is integrated with popular backup services, and makes sure that all of your backup files are malware-free. Let’s examine Imunify360’s linux malware scanner and malware cleanup capabilities in detail. In addition, Imunify360 prepared an article about 360 clean up in Imunify Security Suite covering how to remove malicious code.