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

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[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…

Mandiant’s X Account Was Hacked Using Brute-Force Attack

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[ad_1] Jan 11, 2024NewsroomOnline Security / Cryptocurrency The compromise of Mandiant’s X (formerly Twitter) account last week was likely the result of a “brute-force password attack,” attributing the hack to a drainer-as-a-service (DaaS) group. “Normally, [two-factor authentication] would have mitigated this, but due to some team transitions and a change in X’s 2FA policy, we…