Brute-Force Attack on Wordpress
Apparatus: Distributed botnet, around tens of thousands of bots with their respective IP addresses A pass file of around 1000 entries with some normal passwords Default username: ‘admin’ Steps: WordPress 3.0 release before 3 years, users going on with ‘admin’ as their default username, and some usual password A brute-force with username: ‘admin’ and password from the above mentioned file The botnet, tries this attack on each and every wordpress portal available over Internet Objective: A well-planned distributed attack (just like itsoknoproblembro shook the banking world) against some hot-spot over the Internet. ...