From Russia with Love: The Leader in WP Attacks from the Start of 2017
Brute force and complex attacks from a few IPs have been ravaging the internet for the past four months, according to the monthly published Wordfence Attack Reports.
Brute force and complex attacks from a few IPs have been ravaging the internet for the past four months, according to the monthly published Wordfence Attack Reports.
Hardly two and a half months have passed since 2017 (the year, not the WordPress version), and the world has already seen three WordPress security updates, the last of which hit the dashboards on March 6.
Wordpress has earned much of its fame as a free and open-source content management system. Installing it is easy. Learning and handling couldn’t be easier.
Methodology of cyber attacks has two main options. Either the attacker deliberately picks up a specific website he wants to hack, or he tries to target the widest possible number of websites which happen to have a certain kind of malfunctioning or just a weak spot, aiming to abuse that spot.
Users of the most popular CMS in the world suffered a great security threat during the past three weeks. More precisely, the users who didn’t update their software to version 4.7.2.
Is it hard to really secure your website or is it really hard to do it? Both, actually.
That is, you should update. It is strongly recommended, as always. According to WP Core Contributor Aaron Campbell, 4.7.1 is a security release for all previous versions.
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