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WordPress-powered sites backdoored after FishPig suffers supply chain attack

Posted onSeptember 15, 2022September 15, 2022

It’s only been a week or so, and obviously there are at least three critical holes in WordPress plugins and tools that are being exploited in the wild right now to compromise loads of websites. We’ll start with FishPig, a Read More …

CategoriesNews September 2022TagsBackdoor, e-Commerce, Exploit, Threat Intelligence, TTPs, Vulnerability, WordPress

Attackers scan 1.6 million WordPress sites for vulnerable plugin

Posted onJuly 15, 2022July 15, 2022

Security researchers have detected a massive campaign that scanned close to 1.6 million WordPress sites for the presence of a vulnerable plugin that allows uploading files without authentication. The attackers are targeting the Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder, which has Read More …

CategoriesNews July 2022TagsExploit, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability, WordPress

730K WordPress sites force-updated to patch critical plugin bug

Posted onJune 16, 2022June 17, 2022

WordPress sites using Ninja Forms, a forms builder plugin with more than 1 million installations, have been force-updated en masse this week to a new build that addresses a critical security vulnerability likely exploited in the wild. The vulnerability is Read More …

CategoriesNews June 2022TagsExploit, Security Update, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability, WordPress, Zero-Day

Breaking: Aggressive WordPress Brute Force Attack Campaign Started Today, 3am UTC

Posted onDecember 18, 2017December 20, 2017

A massive distributed brute force attack campaign targeting WordPress sites started this morning at 3am Universal Time, 7pm Pacific Time. The attack is broad in that it uses a large number of attacking IPs, and is also deep in that Read More …

CategoriesNews December 2017TagsData Breach, Information Security - Infosec, OPSEC, Security, WordPress

If your websites use WordPress, put down that coffee and upgrade to 4.8.3. Thank us later

Posted onOctober 31, 2017November 1, 2017

Updated WordPress has a security patch out for a programming blunder that you should apply ASAP. The fix addresses a flaw that can be potentially exploited by hackers to hijack and take over WordPress-powered websites, by injecting malicious SQL database commands. The core Read More …

CategoriesNews October 2017TagsExploit, Security, Vulnerability, WordPress

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