Sprawling Active Attack Aims to Take Over 1.6M WordPress Sites – Threatpost

Cyberattackers are targeting security vulnerabilities in four plugins plus Epsilon themes, to assign themselves administrative accounts.

An active attack against more than 1.6 million WordPress sites is underway, with researchers spotting tens of millions of attempts to exploit four different plugins and several Epsilon Framework themes.

The goal, they said, is complete site takeover using administrative privileges.

The scope of the campaign in notable: The activity is coming from more than 16,000 different IP addresses, according to a…


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