Internet security companies have recorded a massive wave of cyberattacks against Ukrainian WordPress sites since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Cybersecurity firm Wordfence, which protects 8,320 WordPress websites belonging to universities, government, military, and law enforcement entities in Ukraine, reported 144,000 attacks on February 25, 2022 alone, which is three times the number of daily attacks from earlier in February across the Ukrainian websites that they protect. The attacks compromised at least 30 Ukrainian university websites. The hacking group behind these attacks is a pro-Russian group called “theMx0nday”.
For the first time in its history, Wordfence has decided to automatically deploy real-time threat intelligence to all Ukrainian websites using this WordPress plugin, regardless of their subscription tier. Normally, this feature is only available to Premium customers. “We are doing this to assist in blocking cyberattacks targeting Ukraine. This update requires no action from users of the Free version of Wordfence on the UA top-level domain.” says their blog post.
Read more about it here.