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cauz
March 18, 2014, 10:54 p.m.
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http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/03/more-than-162000-wordpress-sites-used-for-distributed-denial-of-service-attack.html
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cauz
March 18, 2014, 10:54 p.m.
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Today I want to talk about a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect source amplification vectors.
Any WordPress site with Pingback enabled (which is on by default) can be used in DDOS attacks against other sites. Note that XMLRPC is used for pingbacks, trackbacks, remote access via mobile devices and many other features you?re likely very fond of. But, it can also be heavily misused like what we are seeing.
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