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Ukraine Was Hit by DDoS Attacks from Hacked WordPress Sites

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMay 1, 2022

Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) said that Ukraine was hit by large-scale DDoS attacks. CERT-UA has published a report on ongoing DDoS attacks on Ukrainian websites and a government web portal. Unknown attackers compromise WordPress sites and inject

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About 30% of critical vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins remain unpatched

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyMarch 16, 2022

Patchstack analysts have released a report on security and critical vulnerabilities in WordPress in 2021. Unfortunately, the picture turned out to be depressing, for example, it turned out that 29% of critical errors in WordPress plugins did not receive patches at all. In

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Hackers create scam e-commerce sites over hacked WordPress sites

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyNovember 27, 2020

Akamai specialist Larry Cashdollar discovered a hacker group that uses hacked WordPress sites in an interesting way. First, hackers run fraudulent online stores over WordPress sites. Second, they poison XML maps to influence search results. Attackers use brute force attacks

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KashmirBlack botnet is behind attacks on popular CMS including WordPress, Joomla and Drupal

ByVladimir KrasnogolovyOctober 27, 2020

Researchers from Imperva have found that the KashmirBlack botnet, active since the end of 2019, is behind attacks on hundreds of thousands of websites powered by popular CMS, including WordPress, Joomla, PrestaShop, Magneto, Drupal, vBulletin, osCommerce, OpenCart and