Earlier this month on the 11th of April a large scale brute force attack was staged focused on vulnerable WordPress blogs using 90,000 strong botnet. The attack was focused on hacking WordPress websites that have not changed “Admin” as their username, the problem is that “Admin” is the default username across a large number of the 64 million WordPress sites globally.
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