Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about the malicious program Trojan.WPCracker.1 designed to compromise blogs and sites managed with popular CMSs such as WordPress. With the Trojan, attackers can change the content of blogs or infect them with other malware that will threaten future visitors. The upsurge of attacks on websites noted by […]
Authored by Daniel Cid and Tony Perez.We have been blogging about the massive brute force attacks against WordPress websites over the past few days, today we want to provide better context of the scale by sharing some more data on what we saw and continue to see. In our previous report, we said that the […]
We are seeing in the media some noise about a large distributed brute force attacks against all hosts targeting WordPress sites. According to reports, they are seeing a large botnet with more than 90,000 servers attempting to log in by cycling different usernames and passwords against the WordPress access points: /wp-login.php and /wp-admin.This got us […]
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