Watch out for SoakSoak, a new malware threat that has compromised more than 100,000 Wordpress websites and led to more than 11,000 domains' being blacklisted by Google. Wordpress is a hugely popular and widely used Web publishing platform, so it’s important to understand how the SoakSoak malware works, and what you can do to prevent your own Wordpress site from being compromised. Approximately one in six websites—or about 60 million worldwide—are hosted through Wordpress, so the damage could be, or may still get, much worse. In a blog post on Tripwire’s State of Security, David Bisson explains that once a Wordpress site is infected, it may unexpectedly redirect users to the SoakSoak.ru domain, and/or download malicious files to the users’ computers to further propagate the attack.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Continue reading at 'PC World'
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