There is currently an ongoing botnet attack targeting Wordpress websites with the username "admin". Whilst the specific goal of the attack is unknown, botnets can be used to perform DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, send spam and perform a number of other illegal activities. The botnet attack is rumoured to using more than 90,000 IP addresses and its approach breaching Wordpress websites is to try as many username and password combinations as possible in order to find valid login credentials. This "brute force" attack can make thousands of username/password guesses a second in order to gain access to your Wordpress...
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There is currently an ongoing botnet attack targeting Wordpress websites with the username "admin". Whilst the specific goal of the attack is unknown, botnets can be used to perform DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks, send spam and perform a number of other illegal activities. The botnet attack is rumoured to using more than 90,000 IP addresses and its approach breaching Wordpress websites is to try as many username and password combinations as possible in order to find valid login credentials. This "brute force" attack can make thousands of username/password guesses a second in order to gain access to your Wordpress...
