Anatomy of a Compromised Site: 7,000 Victims in Two Hours

Earlier this year we discussed how Gizmodo’s Brazilian site was compromised and used to spread online banking malware to approximately 7,000 victims in a two-hour span. The site was compromised via WordPress plugin vulnerabilities that allowed the attacker to add a script that redirected users to a second compromised site, which eventually led users to download the malware….