Tag: Wordpress
News and information from the Advent IM team.
GoDaddy Hacked, 1.2M Customers at Risk of Phishing Attack
- by Connor McBean
- Industry News
Domain registrar GoDaddy has shared details of a serious security breach which saw the details of 1.2 million customers exposed. In a disclosure to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, GoDaddy’s Chief Information Security Officer, Demetrius Comes, shared details of the hack. Suspicious activity was discovered on Nov. 17 in the company’s Managed WordPress hosting […]
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Cloud Database Exposes 800M+ WordPress Users’ Records
- by Olivia Lawlor-Blackburn
- General
A misconfigured cloud database exposed over 800 million records linked to WordPress users before its owner was notified, according to Website Planet. Read via InfoSecurityMag.
Read MoreHundreds of compromised WordPress and Joomla websites are serving up malware to visitors
- by Ellie Hurst
- Advent IM Blog
Researchers see a spike in compromised domains attempting to deliver malicious payloads including Shade ransomware and phishing links. Read full story.
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