{"id":1309,"date":"2016-08-25T12:53:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2016-08-25T12:53:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T10:53:55","slug":"wordfence-uncovers-wordpress-botnet-operated-from-a-german-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/08\/25\/wordfence-uncovers-wordpress-botnet-operated-from-a-german-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":"WordFence uncovers WordPress botnet&ndash;operated from a German hacker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wp_thumb.jpg\" width=\"64\" align=\"left\" height=\"64\">Security specialists from WordFence has discovered a botnet running on WordPress installations. The developer tries to inject the code for the bots into WordPress sites. WordFence firewall has deteted this intrusion attempts. The botnet has been used for DDOS attacs and inserting SEO spam to websites. Analyzing the bots code revealed the idendity of the botnet operator \u2013 who is suspected to be German hacker. Details may be read within the WordFence blog post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/hacking-wordpress-botnet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hacking a WordPress Botnet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security specialists from WordFence has discovered a botnet running on WordPress installations. The developer tries to inject the code for the bots into WordPress sites. WordFence firewall has deteted this intrusion attempts. The botnet has been used for DDOS attacs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/08\/25\/wordfence-uncovers-wordpress-botnet-operated-from-a-german-hacker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[372,69,359],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-botnet","tag-security","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}