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Exposed Server Reveals WP-SHELLSTORM Backdooring Thousands of WordPress Sites

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from The Hacker News ·

A cybercrime crew left a server exposed for three weeks, revealing tools, logs, and a target list of 1.4 million websites. Researchers found that thousands of WordPress sites were backdoored via WP-SHELLSTORM. The breach offers a rare inside look at mass site-hacking operations.

Meridian48 take
The scale of the target list underscores how automated attacks have made WordPress sites a prime target, but the actual compromise count remains relatively low.
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