More Than 162,000 WordPress Sites Used for Distributed Denial of Service Attack

Dermot7 · Mar 10, 2014

It all happened against a popular WordPress site that had gone down for many hours due to a DDOS. As the attack increased in size, their host shut them down, and then they decided to ask for help and subscribed to our CloudProxy Website Firewall.

Once the DNS was ported we were able to see what was going on, it was a large HTTP-based (layer 7) distributed flood attack, sending hundreds of requests per second to their server. The requests looked like this:
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http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/03/more...for-distributed-denial-of-service-attack.html

Dermot7 · Mar 13, 2014

On Wednesday, KrebsOnSecurity was hit with a fairly large attack which leveraged a feature in more than 42,000 blogs running the popular WordPress content management system (this blog runs on WordPress). This post is an effort to spread the word to other WordPress users to ensure their blogs aren’t used in attacks going forward.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/03/blogs-of-war-dont-be-cannon-fodder/

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