#Joomla: Fort Disco Brute-Force Attack Campaign Targets CMS Websites

More than 6,000 websites built on content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla and Datalife Engine were compromised in a new brute-force attack campaign, according to a researcher at Arbor Networks. A botnet called Fort Disco, currently made up of 25,000 Windows machines, is responsible for the attacks and remains active, according to researcher Matt Bing.

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