100,000+ WordPress Websites compromised: trends, realities and solutions.
With more than 70 million websites, on its asset, WordPress,
is a free most popular CMS to build and run your website anywhere and anytime. This
popularity is a grail for notorious attackers. So, according to Tony Perez Co-Founder / CEO
at Sucuri, 100,000+ WordPress
Websites are compromised.
Their preliminary analysis is showing correlation with the Revslider vulnerability
we reported a few months back.
The impact seems to be affecting most hosts across the WordPress hosting
spectrum. Quick breakdown of the decoding process is available via our PHP Decoder.
SoakSoak
Malware Anatomy when decoded can load a javascript malware from
the SoakSoack.ru domain, specifically this file: hxxp://soaksoak.ru/xteas/code
