If you run a WordPress website, you need to get serious about keeping it as secure as possible. WordPress continues to be a widespread target for hackers. Last November, more than a million GoDaddy-managed WordPress customers were part of a breach that could have exposed their email addresses, private SSL keys, and admin passwords. The attacker was apparently able to operate undetected inside the company’s networks for two months.
In February, Ukrainian university WordPress websites were attacked as the Russian invasion began. Another attack on a WordPress server redirected traffic to malicious websites where visitors would receive malware. Going back in time, a botnet used compromised WordPress servers to attack others in 2018 and another series of attacks in 2019.
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