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UKFast Threat Monitoring Report
sees PHP attacks on the rise
osting firm UKFast has released
its first Threat Monitoring
Report, with data and insight
from its Threat Monitoring
service, which continuously analyses data
to distinguish between potential security
breaches and normal activity. Data from
the first 10 weeks of 2019 shows more
than 5.5m malicious events across the
platform, with 1.52m full attack attempts
blocked in total, from a sample size of
181.5m total events analysed.
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PHP web attacks nearly doubled when
compared to the 10 weeks to December
31, 2018 and were the most common
attack type seen, with 52,920, followed
by SQL injection attempts and XSS (cross
site scripting) attempts.
The USA, Russia and China have generated
the most attack attempts throughout the
lifetime of the service, although data from
2019 to date sees attacks from the UK
climb into third place ahead of China.
UKFast CTO Neil Lathwood said: “We’re
seeing a rising number of attempted PHP
web attacks across the servers protected
by Threat Monitoring. PHP is a popular
programming language so it’s natural that
we’re seeing a huge number of attacks on
PHP applications and websites.
“With the popularity of software like
WordPress, which can be extended using
plugins, websites are being exposed to
compromises as some of these plugins are
not regularly updated by their developers.
This issue is leaving businesses open to
some really significant vulnerabilities.” ◊
THIS ISSUE IS LEAVING
BUSINESSES OPEN TO SOME REALLY
SIGNIFICANT VULNERABILITIES.
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