The company behind the Wordfence Security plugin is not by any means an honest company from what we have seen from over the years, so it wasn’t surprising for us torun across them advertising their payed service in a dishonest way. Yesterday we had noted that they appear to have left the public in the dark about an unfixed vulnerability in a WordPress plugin that was being exploited. After viewing Wordfence’s website while looking over that post we started getting re-targeted ads for their Wordfence Premium service and a lot of them.

By a lot, on just one page in one instance we served up five unique ads (plus multiple copies of the unique ads). What seems clearly to be key selling point is something that the security industry frequently uses to mislead people, which is promoting services as being “real-time”: [Read more]