1.6 Million WordPress Sites Hit With 13.7 Million Attacks In 36 Hours From 16,000 IPs (www.wordfence.com)

Today, on December 9, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team noticed a drastic uptick in attacks targeting vulnerabilities that make it possible for attackers to update arbitrary options on vulnerable sites. This led us into an investigation which uncovered an active attack targeting over a million WordPress sites. Over the past 36 hours, the Wordfence network …