SETTIMA PORTA
In March 2014, Akamai published a report about a widely seen exploit involving Pingback that targets vulnerable WordPress sites. This exploit led to massive abuse of legitimate blogs and websites and turned them into unwilling participants in a DDoS attack.[2] Details about this vulnerability have been publicized since 2012.[3] The pingback attacks consist of “reflection” and “amplification”: an attacker sends a pingback […]