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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
DDoS attack is launched from 162,000 WordPress sites
Using unsuspecting WordPress sites as amplification vectors, a hacker takes down a popular Web site for hours.
by
Dara Kerr
March 11, 2014 8:25 PM PDT
With some old-fashioned trickery, hackers were able to get more than 162,000 legitimate WordPress-powered Web sites to mount a distributed-denial-of-service attack against another Web site, security researchers said Monday.
Security firm Sucuri said hackers leveraged a well-known flaw in WordPress that allows an attack to be amplified by harnessing unsuspecting Web sites. It's unclear which site was the victim of the cyberattack, but Sucuri said it was a "popular WordPress site" that went down for many hours.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57620208-83/ddos-attack-is-launched-from-162000-wordpress-sites/
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