{"id":236667,"date":"2026-05-06T22:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/hackers-abuse-google-ads-for-godaddy-managewp-login-phishing"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:20:06","slug":"hackers-abuse-google-ads-for-godaddy-managewp-login-phishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/hackers-abuse-google-ads-for-godaddy-managewp-login-phishing","title":{"rendered":"Hackers abuse Google ads for GoDaddy ManageWP login phishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-abuse-google-ads-for-godaddy-managewp-login-phishing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A phishing campaign delivered through Google sponsored search results is targeting credentials for ManageWP, GoDaddy\u2019s platform for managing fleets of WordPress websites.<\/p>\n<p>The threat actor is using an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) approach where the fake login page acts as a real-time proxy between the victim and the legitimate ManageWP service.<\/p>\n<p>ManageWP is a centralized remote administration platform for WordPress websites, enabling users to manage multiple sites from a single panel instead of logging into separate dashboards. Common users include web developers, web agencies managing client sites, and enterprises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phishing campaign delivered through Google sponsored search results is targeting credentials for ManageWP, GoDaddy\u2019s platform for managing fleets of WordPress websites. The threat actor is using an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) approach where the fake login page acts as a real-time proxy between the victim and the legitimate ManageWP service. ManageWP is a centralized remote administration [\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-236667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236667","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=236667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}