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KashmirBlack Botnet Hijacks Thousands of Sites Running On Popular CMS Platforms

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read1
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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2017-9841
Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in PHPUnit eval-stdin.php
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2 min read at thehackernews.com

An active botnet comprising hundreds of thousands of hijacked systems spread across 30 countries is exploiting "dozens of known vulnerabilities" to target widely-used content management systems (CMS). The "KashmirBlack" campaign, which is believed to have started around November 2019, aims for popular CMS platforms such as WordPress, Joomla!

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