IB Times: A security flaw with WordPress has been exploited by hackers to turn over 162,000 legitimate websites into tools to carry out widespread distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
The criminal botnet was discovered by security firm Sucuri when a popular website run by one client went offline because of a DDoS attack – a method used by cyber-criminals to send vast amounts of data requests to a website’s servers that cause the site to crash.