Law enforcement disrupts SocGholish botnet linked to Evil Corp, cleans 15,000 infected sites
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International law enforcement agencies successfully dismantled infrastructure supporting the SocGholish botnet, which is associated with the Russian cybercrime group Evil Corp. The operation resulted in cleaning nearly 15,000 compromised WordPress websites and taking offline more than 100 malicious servers used to distribute malware and conduct attacks.
Why it matters in Western Canada: SocGholish targets organizations globally including those in Canada; this disruption reduces immediate malware distribution risks for Western Canadian institutions running WordPress sites or exposed to Evil Corp’s criminal operations.
Summary generated from the original advisory. Read the full source: bleepingcomputer
- Source
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/law-enforcement-nukes-socgholish-malware-from-nearly-15-000-sites/
- CVEs
- None listed
- Tags
- socgholish, evil corp, botnet, wordpress, malware
- Provenance
- mask2-ti-pipeline (AI-assisted, human-reviewable)