{"id":203768,"date":"2025-01-15T04:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/wp3-xyz-malware-attacks-add-rogue-admins-to-5000-wordpress-sites"},"modified":"2025-01-15T04:07:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T10:07:41","slug":"wp3-xyz-malware-attacks-add-rogue-admins-to-5000-wordpress-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/wp3-xyz-malware-attacks-add-rogue-admins-to-5000-wordpress-sites","title":{"rendered":"WP3.XYZ malware attacks add rogue admins to 5,000+ WordPress sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wp3-xyz-malware-attacks-add-rogue-admins-to-5000-wordpress-sites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new malware campaign has compromised more than 5,000 WordPress sites to create admin accounts, install a malicious plugin, and steal data.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at webscript security company c\/side discovered during an incident response engagement for one of their clients that the malicious activity uses the wp3[.]xyz domain to exfiltrate data but have yet to determine the initial infection vector.<\/p>\n<p>After compromising a target, a malicious script loaded from the wp3[.]xyz domain creates the rogue admin account <em>wpx_admin<\/em> with credentials available in the code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new malware campaign has compromised more than 5,000 WordPress sites to create admin accounts, install a malicious plugin, and steal data. Researchers at webscript security company c\/side discovered during an incident response engagement for one of their clients that the malicious activity uses the wp3[.]xyz domain to exfiltrate data but have yet to determine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}