Security News > 2024 > March > Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors' Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks
2024-03-07 13:45
Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors,” security researcher Denis Sinegubko said. The activity is part of a&
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