Archive for December 2021

Cyberattackers are targeting security vulnerabilities in four plugins plus Epsilon themes, to assign themselves administrative accounts. An active attack against more than 1.6 million WordPress sites is underway, with researchers spotting tens of millions of attempts to exploit four different plugins and several Epsilon Framework themes. The goal, they said, is complete site takeover using…

Problems within the Amazon Web Services infrastructure caused large chunks of the Internet to either load slowly or not load at all starting 12:00 ET/15:30 GMT on Dec. 7, according to data from real-time outage monitoring service DownDetector. Amazon said the problems were in the US-EAST-1 region, which refers to Amazon’s data centers in Virginia, and impacted Elastic Compute Cloud…