{"id":5573,"date":"2018-09-22T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5573"},"modified":"2018-09-22T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T00:08:09","slug":"thousands-of-wordpress-sites-backdoored-with-malicious-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/09\/22\/thousands-of-wordpress-sites-backdoored-with-malicious-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of WordPress sites backdoored with malicious code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked and compromised with malicious code this month, according to security researchers at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/labs.sucuri.net\/?note=2018-09-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sucuri<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-analysis\/2018\/09\/mass-wordpress-compromises-tech-support-scams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Malwarebytes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All compromises seem to follow a similar pattern &#8211;to load malicious code from a known threat actor&#8211; although the entry vector for all these incidents appears to be different.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers believe intruders are gaining access to these sites not by exploiting flaws in the WordPress CMS itself, but vulnerabilities in outdated themes and plugins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When they gain access to a site, they plant a backdoor for future access and make modifications to the site&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/thousands-of-wordpress-sites-backdoored-with-malicious-code\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/thousands-of-wordpress-sites-backdoored-with-malicious-code\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked and compromised with malicious code this month, according to security researchers at\u00a0Sucuri\u00a0and\u00a0Malwarebytes. All compromises seem to follow a similar pattern &#8211;to load malicious code from a known threat actor&#8211; although the entry vector for all these incidents appears to be different. Researchers believe intruders are gaining access to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[715345],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-04-enterprise-architecture","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}