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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.” n
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