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Botnet of Infected WordPress Sites Attacking WordPress Sites
The Defiant Threat Intelligence team recently began tracking the behavior of an organized brute force attack campaign against WordPress sites. This campaign has created a botnet of infected WordPress websites to perform its attacks, which attempt XML-RPC authentication to other WordPress sites in order to access privileged accounts. Between Wordfence’s brute force protection and the premium real-time …
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Thousands of Hacked Home Routers are Attacking WordPress Sites
Update: By popular request, we have created a tool that lets you check if your own home router is vulnerable to the problems discussed in this post.
Analysis: Methods and Monetization of a Botnet Attacking WordPress
At Wordfence we see a huge range of infection types every day as we help our customers repair hacked websites.
Hacking a WordPress Botnet
While analyzing some of the attacks we see on the Wordfence Web Application Firewall, we discovered code that an attacker was trying to upload that was part of a botnet.
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