1.6 Million WordPress Sites Have Been Attacked

An ongoing large-scale assault effort coming from 16,000 IP addresses has affected up to 1.6 million WordPress websites by leveraging flaws in four plugins and 15 Epsilon Framework themes.

Wordfence, a WordPress security firm, announced Thursday that it has discovered and prevented more than 13.7 million attempts intended at plugins and themes over the course of 36 hours, with the…