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Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites Turned Into Criminal Infrastructure
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Decrypt Editorial(04:33 PM UTC)
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In brief
- Check Point Research identified nearly 2,000 compromised WordPress sites used by the StopAndProtect malware operation.
- More than 6,000 unique IP addresses had been compromised as of July 24, including 1,852 in the United States.
- Researchers believe the attackers accidentally infected themselves, exposing internal files and tools used to manage compromised sites.
Nearly 2,000 hacked…
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