Article 2JVZV Floods of WordPress attacks traced to easily hackable, ISP-supplied routers

Floods of WordPress attacks traced to easily hackable, ISP-supplied routers

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Cory Doctorow
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Wordfence, a security research company, discovered that the reason Algeria is the country most often seen in attacks on Wordpress blogs is that the country's largest ISP distributes home routers that are locked in an insecure state, with an open port that lets attackers seize control of them and use them to stage attacks on higher-value targets. (more")

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