A botnet using more than 90,000 IP addresses to crack WordPress admin accounts may be used as part of a larger plot to disrupt online users, according to researchers. WordPress founding developer Matthew Mullenweg took to his blog Friday to warn users ..

If you happen to use WordPress to host your company website or blog, then you'll probably be worried by news that the ecosystem is currently facing its worst ever coordinated brute force attack, as hackers attempt to gain control of WordPress …

The botnet is attempting to “brute force” attack WordPress websites using the username “admin”, with thousands of different passwords. The botnet of machines — often individual machines infected with malware and subscribed to target servers and … See all stories on this topic »

WordPress , a popular blogging platform used by individuals as well as big businesses including UPS and eBay, is the target of a widespread botnet attack. The vulnerability that allows hackers to get into WordPress accounts and take them over for other ..

That warning was issued Friday by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg, in the wake of reports that thousands of WordPress sites with an administrator username set to “admin” or “Admin” had been compromised via large-scale brute force attacks. Service ..

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg urged users to immediately change their passwords to something less obvious. Meanwhile, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said recently that civilian drones should be better regulated, keeping them out of the … See all stories on this topic »

Over the past couple of days it has been widely reported that WordPress based sites are being targeted by a massive brute force attack, one that is supposedly backed by a botnet with over 90,000 IP addresses. The nature of this attack has been …

Wordpress has been attacked by a botnet of “tens of thousands” of individual computers since last week, according to server hosters Cloudflare and Hostgator.

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WordPress , one of the largest blogging platforms in the world, has been hacked again by the hackers. Unidentified hackers aim was to capture and retrieve login credentials for accounts that work at administrator levels

Many wordpress sites are under attack by a botnet using brute-force methods to obtain their passwords. The attacks seem limited to only users who kept the default “Admin” username for their websites, however, these attacks are only the beginning …

Hostgator, one of the biggest hosts has said that hackers are using a botnet to hack wordpress websites that are using weak login and password details. The attack is quite strong and has been noted by many web hosts and other security companies ..