Data security firm Imperva released its fifth annual Web Application Attack report (WAAR) this week, a study designed track the latest trends and cyber threats facing web applications.
The report, which is based on the analysis of 99 applications over a period of nine months (August 1, 2013 - April 30, 2014), determined that WordPress is the most targeted content management system (CMS). In fact, WordPress websites were attacked 24.1% more than sites running on all other CMS platforms combined.
"WordPress has been in the headlines, in the past couple of years, both because of its popularity, and because of the amount of vulnerabilities found in its application and exposed by hackers. We believe that popularity and a hacker’s focus go hand-in-hand. When an application or a platform becomes popular, hackers realize that the ROI from hacking into these platforms or applications will be fruitful, so they spend more time researching and exploiting these applications, either to steal data from them, or to use the hacked systems as zombies in a botnet," the report reads.
