With a number of gaming sites falling victim to data breaches in July of this year, CS Hub looks at why these sites are often targets for hackers
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Cyberattacks Against Israeli Government Sites: ‘Largest in the Country’s History’
DDoS attacks against Israel telecom companies took down government sites, sparking a temporary state of emergency.
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PHP Everywhere Bugs Put 30K+ WordPress Sites at Risk of RCE
The plug-in’s default settings spawned flaws that could allow for full site takeover but have since been fixed in an update that users should immediately install, Wordfence researchers said.
AdSanity, AccessPress Plugins Open Scads of WordPress Sites to Takeover
A critical security bug and a months-long, ongoing supply-chain attack spell trouble for WordPress users.
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20K WordPress Sites Exposed by Insecure Plugin REST-API
The WordPress WP HTML Mail plugin for personalized emails is vulnerable to code injection and phishing due to XSS.
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Three Plugins with Same Bug Put 84K WordPress Sites at Risk
Researchers discovered vulnerabilities that can allow for full site takeover in login and e-commerce add-ons for the popular website-building platform.
‘Be Afraid:’ Massive Cyberattack Downs Ukrainian Gov’t Sites
As Moscow moves troops and threatens military action, about 70 Ukrainian government sites were hit. “Be afraid” was scrawled on the Foreign Ministry site.
Sprawling Active Attack Aims to Take Over 1.6M WordPress Sites
Cyberattackers are targeting security vulnerabilities in four plugins plus Epsilon themes, to assign themselves administrative accounts.
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80K Retail WooCommerce Sites Exposed by Plugin XSS Bug
The Variation Swatches plugin security flaw lets attackers with low-level permissions tweak important settings on e-commerce sites to inject malicious scripts.
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CISA Urges Sites to Patch Critical RCE in Discourse
The patch, urgently rushed out on Friday, is an emergency fix for the widely deployed platform, whose No. 1 most trafficked site is Amazon’s Seller Central.