Hackers compromise nearly 16,000 WordPress websites
According to security researcher Daniel Cid, at least 15,769 WordPress websites have been compromised this year by cyber-attackers who were able to evade Google's Safe Browsing checks.
WordPress is the most popular content management system in the world, used by consumers and businesses to create and publish blogs. To conduct the research needed for the second 2016 Sucuri report on compromised web properties, 21,821 sites were studied with the majority of them using WordPress to manage and publish their content. The report also found that 3099 Joomla! sites were hacked during that time as well.
Almost three quarters of the compromised sites in the Sucuri report all shared one characteristic, they were backdoored. By placing a backdoor on these sites, hackers gained a new way of loading malicious payloads, targeting visitors and in the future these same sites could be used for further attacks.
