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Critical ‘Backdoor Attack’ Warning Issued For 60 Million WordPress Users

Posted on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 By Davey Winder

Over 60 million people power their websites with WordPress, an ongoing attack is trying to compromise as many as possible

A website hacking campaign, that has been ongoing since July, has morphed from redirecting browsers to sites containing dodgy adverts or malicious software into something a lot more troublesome. Mikey Veenstra, a researcher with the Defiant Threat Intelligence team, said that “the campaign has added another script which attempts to install a backdoor into the target site by exploiting an administrator’s session.”

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