Carphone Warehouse has been fined £400,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a data breach in 2015. Hackers gained unauthorised access to the personal data of more than three…
Tag: Wordpress
Interpol unplugs nearly 9,000 Asian command and control networks
WordPress plug-in bug exploited in eight countries By Richard Chirgwin An Interpol investigation has revealed a worrying degree of insecurity in south-east Asian countries, with even government-operated web servers infected…
Wordpress blogs defaced in hack attacks
A security flaw in the WordPress blogging software has let hackers attack and deface tens of thousands of sites. One estimate suggests more than 1.5 million pages on blogs have…
A new WordPress plug-in exploit endangers thousands of websites
WP Mobile Detector flaw allowed hackers to install malicious files on servers. By Lucian Constantin Over the past few days, attackers have been exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in WP Mobile…
Reinvented ransomware shifts from pwning PC to wrecking websites
‘CTB Locker’ targets WordPress, offers live chat to help victims pay up. Darren Pauli A new ransomware variant appears to be ripping through WordPress sites encrypting data and demanding a…
WordPress under attack by whack-a-mole ad-scam malware
JavaScript attack spreads among sites, re-infects after cleansing. Darren Pauli Sucuri threat researcher Denis Sinegubko says a “massive” advertising scam campaign is affecting users visiting WordPress sites, injecting backdoors and…