Tag: Website Attacks
WordPress Sites Leveraged in Layer 7 DDoS Campaigns
We first disclosed that the WordPress pingback method was being misused to perform massive layer 7 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks back in March 2014. The problem being that any WordPress website with the pingback feature enabled (its default setting) could be used to attack the availability of other websites. The attacks would inundate the web server with LayerRead…