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More Than 162,000 WordPress Websites Leveraged to Launch DDoS

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Mar

2014

Researchers at Sucuri have discovered an attack abusing a commonly-used feature of WordPress to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. According to Sucuri, the attack took advantage of WordPress’ Pingback function, which essentially notifies the author of a blog that another blog has linked to his or her blog post. In a blog post, Sucuri […]

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162,000 WordPress Sites Abused to Amplify DDOS Attack

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Mar

2014

Sucuri has been called in to mitigate a major distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack aimed at a popular WordPress site. Whats interesting about this incident is that 162,000 other WordPress sites were used to amplify the attack. DDOS attacks are becoming more and more common. However, every once in a while, cybercriminals come up with an […]

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Duo Security Finds Vulnerability in Its 2FA WordPress Plugin

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Feb

2014

Two-factor authentication (2FA) solutions provider Duo Security has identified a vulnerability in its WordPress plugin that can be exploited to bypass the second factor authentication on some deployments. Duo WordPress plugin 1.8.1 and earlier versions are affected. The company has clarified that only WordPress ld…

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