In 2017, we’ve predicted that more than half of the traffic to Cloudflare’s network will come from mobile devices. Even if they are formatted to be displayed on a small screen, the mobile web is built on traditional web protocols and technologies that were designed for desktop CPUs, network connections, and displays. As a result, […]
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Webutation Distributing Malware Through Safety Badge
If you are using the Webutation badge on your site, remove it now. It appears they got hacked and are distributing malware to mobile devices through redirects hidden within the badge’s code. We were analyzing a website that was compromised and redirecting visitors to bogus apps on the Apple App Store and the Google PlayRead […]
iOS Developers — Migrate to iOS 9 with CloudFlare
Thousands of developers use CloudFlare to accelerate and secure the backend of their mobile applications and websites. This week is Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), where thousands of Apple developers come to San Francisco to talk, learn and share best practices for developing software for Apple platforms. New announcements from Apple this week make CloudFlare […]
Bogus Mobile-Shortcuts WordPress Plugin Injects SEO Spam
Here at Sucuri we see countless cases of SEO spam where a website is compromised in order to spread pharmaceutical advertisements or backlinks to sites selling luxury goods. Most of the time this involves injecting hundreds of spam links into the site’s database but in this case a deceptive, fake plugin called mobile-shortcuts was able […]
Mirage 2.0: Solving the Mobile Browsing Speed Challenge
Almost exactly a year ago, CloudFlare announced a feature called Mirage. Mirage was designed to make the loading of images faster in two primary ways: 1) deliver smaller images for devices with smaller screens; and 2) “lazy load” images only when they appeared in the viewport. Both of these optimizations were designed primarily to accelerate […]