Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware While Average Falls Below 30%, We’re Still Far From Seeing Criminal Profits Dry Up Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • February 2, 2024 Fewer ransomware victims are paying the extortion demanded by ransomware groups. (Image: Shutterstock) The number of victims who opt to pay a ransom appears to […]
A new vulnerability in the User Submitted Posts WordPress plugin (versions 20230902 and below) has been discovered by the Patchstack team. With over 20,000 active installations, this popular plugin is used for user-generated content submissions and is developed by Plugin Planet. The vulnerability, discussed by Patchstack security researcher Rafie Muhammad in an advisory published today, […]
Two new security flaws in the popular Simple Membership plugin for WordPress, affecting versions 4.3.4 and below, have been identified, leading to potential privilege escalation issues. With over 50,000 active installations, the plugin developed by smp7 and wp.insider is widely used for custom membership management on WordPress sites. The flaws identified by Patchstack security researchers include […]