Botnets attack, brute force batter WordPress and Joomla 

Category: Joomla

Bloggers and website owners using WordPress and Joomla may want to take tighter security precautions for their accounts, after hosting providers noted brute force attacks targeting these platforms have tripled.

While these attacks against popular content management systems are nothing new, the sudden increase is a bit worrying. Until the botnet in question is taken down, however, there is not much that can be done aside from ensuring you are taking every precaution. That includes using a solid username and password combination as well as ensuring your CMS and plugins are up-to-date, it said.

The Next Web cited a report by Melbourne Server Hosting that it has detected signs over the past 48 hours of increased attempts.

It added Immotion Hosting has noted the attempts came from a large amount of IP addresses spread across the world.

Such signs may suggest the attackers are using a botnet to break in, The Next Web said.

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April 13th, 2013
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