bleeping-computer · Crawled Jul 11, 2026
Australia warns of global campaign targeting vulnerable CMS platforms
5 CVEs
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AI Summary
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a warning about a global campaign targeting vulnerabilities in content management systems (CMS) and plugins, affecting numerous small- to medium-sized businesses in Australia. Threat actors are actively scanning for exposed CMS platforms and deploying webshells to gain persistent access, enabling credential theft, service disruption, and lateral movement. The campaign exploits known vulnerabilities across multiple CMS platforms including WordPress, Craft CMS, MaxSite CMS, MetInfo CMS, and Joomla JCE, with potential AI assistance to accelerate exploitation.
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Extracted Entities 5 found
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs 15 techniques
T1021 Remote Services · Lateral Movement T1046 Network Service Discovery · Discovery T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter · Execution T1071 Application Layer Protocol · Command And Control T1078 Valid Accounts · Defense Evasion T1082 System Information Discovery · Discovery T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer · Command And Control T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application · Initial Access T1505.003 Web Shell · Persistence T1059.001 PowerShell · Execution T1071.001 Web Protocols · Command And Control T1090 Proxy · Command And Control T1133 External Remote Services · Persistence T1566 Phishing · Initial Access T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information · Defense Evasion