Re: [bitfolk] Security incident: Wordpress compromise

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Author: Johnathon
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CC: users@lists.bitfolk.com
Subject: Re: [bitfolk] Security incident: Wordpress compromise
It's worth enabling two-factor auth if you can. There are paid services/plugins you can use, a pretty decent one is from Duo security.

Sent from my mobile, apologies for brevity.

On 30 Dec 2012, at 23:47, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:41:34PM +0000, Ian wrote:
>> Andy said:
>>> Upon further investigation it appeared that around 30th November one
>>> of the site's legitimate Wordpress admins had logged in from an
>>> unexpected place (a Tor exit node) and had uploaded a PHP file which
>>> appeared to enable full filesystem traversal, downloading of file
>>> content, shell command execution as Apache user, etc.
>>
>> Is this something that was uploaded to the WordPress
>> wp-content/upload directories or as a plugin / theme?
>
> It was uploaded as a plugin.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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