Major wordpress attack in progress
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- comicsans
Upgrade now.
- Ruffian0
PANIC!
- spraycan0
thanks
- comicsans0
More here, http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/05… one sign of the current hack is to look for users you've not heard of.
- ahem!, one symptom of the current hack is users you don't recognizecomicsans
- monkeyshine0
I think I got hit. Last week received odd email from my hosting company as though I'd entered a help ticket. The ticket response from my hosting company was "Hello, I granted you cPanel access in order to fix the issue." What?!
Have an email in to my hosting company but the site was suspended (luckily not my main site). Not sure what or how happened but must be this worm?
- bort0
This is the thing that concerns me most about building sites with WP. Because it's so popular, hackers will always target it, and WP will constantly release updates to combat the attacks. What this means is every time there is a new update I have to go back through all my client sites and perform the upgrade to prevent some worm from destroying all my previous work.
Seems WP is the blog equivalent of Windows (in terms of ubiquity and appeal to hackers).
- acescence0
I mostly use WP as a CMS and not blog, so I always disable all of the user registration and password reset stuff, which I guess saved me in this instance.
- neferiu0
yo eating_tv, i was having the same issues. I finally (seemed) to stop it by looking closely at my server logs and actually blocking IP's that were doing some fishy shit. Haven't had a prob since..
- Stugoo0
bumpity for my own timeline.