Hackers hustle to hassle un-patched Joomla! sites

Attackers are already exploiting a dangerous privileged account creation hole in the Joomla! content management system attempting, with attempts made on about 30,000 sites in the days days after a patch for the flaw landed. The vulnerability, which allows anyone to create privileged accounts on Joomla! sites, was first flagged …

[wiggers]

"eventuated"?? What language is this written in?!

[funkenstein]

Re: Eventuated

@wiggers - not sure, but that attempting in the first line probably doesn't need to be there either... "Attackers are already exploiting a dangerous privileged account creation hole in the Joomla! content management system attempting,"

[Ben Tasker]

> "If you have not updated your Joomla site yet, you are likely already compromised," Cid says.

Seems a bit sensationalist. I've checked logs for quite a number of sites and most of them haven't seen any attempts.