A botnet of over 20,000 WordPress sites is attacking other WordPress sites

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A botnet of over 20,000 WordPress sites is attacking other WordPress sites
December 5, 2018
https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot...ess-sites-is-attacking-other-wordpress-sites/

Crooks controlling a network of over 20,000 already-infected WordPress installations are using these sites to launch attacks on other WordPress sites, ZDNet has learned from WordPress security firm Defiant.

The attacks are what security experts call "dictionary attacks." These are repeated login attempts during which hackers test a series of username and password combinations, hoping to score a hit and gain access to an account.

In a report published a few minutes ago and shared with ZDNet, the researcher said Defiant investigators discovered that at the top of this botnet stands hydra-like head of four command and control servers that instruct already-infected sites on which other sites to attack.
[...] Defiant recommends that WordPress site owners use a WordPress security plugin that can block brute-force or dictionary attacks carried out against the XML-RPC service.
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