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Richard M.

Global WordPress Brute Force Flood | HostGator Web Hosting Blog | Gator Crossing - 0 views

  • This attack is well organized and again very, very distributed; we have seen over 90,000 IP addresses involved in this attack.
  • The servers most likely to experience service interruptions will be VPS and Dedicated servers hosting high numbers of WordPress installations, due to the incredibly high load this attack has been seen to cause.
Richard M.

Wordpress Security: Millions exposed to pingback DDoS | Incapsula - 0 views

  • the attackers took advantage of an existing WordPress vulnerability and abused the site, herding it into a voluntary botnet.
  • WordPress has a built in functionality called Pingback, which allows anyone to initiate a request from WordPress to an arbitrary site.
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