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Large-scale attack on WordPress

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this link. ]

“According to various reports, in the past few days a
number of websites created using WordPress have been hacked. While
the attack initially appeared to be limited to web sites hosted by
American ISP DreamHost, it has since become apparent that blogs
hosted at GoDaddy, Bluehost and Media Temple have also been
affected. Unconfirmed reports by WPSecurityLock suggest that other
PHP-based management systems, such as the Zen Cart eCommerce
solution, have also been targeted.

“The hacked web pages appear to have been infected with scripts,
which not only install malware on users’ systems, but also prevent
browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome, which use Google’s Safe
Browsing API, from issuing an alert when users try to access the
page.”


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