Admin password spells trouble in recent WordPress attacks
Sunday, April 14, 2013 - 07:00
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Sources from several Web hosting services this week raised an all-out alert: WordPress was under attack with at least 90,000 IP addresses involved to brute-force crack credentials of WordPress sites. The attacks, they said, are worrying in that they are on an unusually large scale, being described as "superbotnet" level. Among hosting providers detecting such attacks were CloudFlare and HostGator. "The attacker is brute force attacking the WordPress administrative portals, using the username 'admin' and trying thousands of passwords," Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, said in an April 11 blog posting.