Web Service for WordPress Password Cracking

Web Service for WordPress Password Cracking

IT Support is the key as hackers have developed a distributed Wordpress admin account cracking scheme that poses a severe risk for the IT security of blogs whose owners select insecure passwords.
PHP scripts located on a virtual server run bruteforce (password guessing) attacks on targeted sites. Many sites can be attacked at the same time by the system, with results written into an associated database.



The SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre notes that brute force attacks against Wordpress are commonplace. The distributed nature of the latest attack marks an evolution towards blog hacking as a web IT service, however, thus marking it out from the crowd.