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Botnets attack blogging tools

Techweek has been reporting that two large botnets have targeted various content management systems, including WordPress and Joomla. The most recent attacks wer...

Federal News Network Staff

August 13, 2013 12:21 pm

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Techweek has been reporting that two large botnets have targeted various content management systems, including WordPress and Joomla. The most recent attacks were labeled as Fort Disco, which began in late May 2013, according to Arbor Networks. Arbor has found six command and control servers, running over 25,000 infected Windows machines that were used to attack CMS systems using brute force or basically running through large lists of possible passwords.