{"id":10617,"date":"2013-08-08T12:13:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10617"},"modified":"2013-08-08T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T17:13:21","slug":"fort-disco-botnet-behind-attack-campaign-against-thousands-of-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10617","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fort Disco&#8217; Botnet Behind Attack Campaign Against Thousands Of Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The number of weak passwords is not surprising, as this campaign is clearly a target of opportunity and not focused on a specific target,&#8221; Bing says. &#8220;This is interesting as it marks a sea change in the tactics of attackers. In addition to drive-by exploits of unpatched Windows machines being the low-hanging fruit, attackers are learning that these blog and content management systems are often vulnerable to trivial attacks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/attacks-breaches\/fort-disco-botnet-behind-attack-campaign\/240159627\">&#8216;Fort Disco&#8217; Botnet Behind Attack Campaign Against Thousands Of Sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The number of weak passwords is not surprising, as this campaign is clearly a target of opportunity and not focused on a specific target,&#8221; Bing says. &#8220;This is interesting as it marks a sea change in the tactics of attackers. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10617\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[347,131],"class_list":["post-10617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-malware","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}