Hacked WordPress Sites Abusing Visitors’ Browsers for Distributed Brute-Force Attacks

[ad_1] Mar 07, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Web Security 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…

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Threat Actors Increasingly Abusing GitHub for Malicious Purposes

[ad_1] Jan 11, 2024NewsroomCybersecurity / Software Security The ubiquity of GitHub in information technology (IT) environments has made it a lucrative choice for threat actors to host and deliver malicious payloads and act as dead drop resolvers, command-and-control, and data exfiltration points. “Using GitHub services for malicious infrastructure allows adversaries to blend in with legitimate…

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Hackers Abusing GitHub to Evade Detection and Control Compromised Hosts

[ad_1] Dec 19, 2023The Hacker NewsSoftware Security / Threat intelligence Threat actors are increasingly making use of GitHub for malicious purposes through novel methods, including abusing secret Gists and issuing malicious commands via git commit messages. “Malware authors occasionally place their samples in services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Discord to host second stage…

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