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GoTrim: Go-based Botnet Actively Brute Forces WordPress Websites

Fortinet News, December 12th, 2022

FortiGuard Labs recently encountered a previously unreported Content Management System (CMS) scanner and brute forcer written in the Go programming language (also commonly referred to as Golang).

We took a closer look at this malware because it was being described in several online forums as being installed in compromised WordPress sites, but there were no publicly available analysis reports.

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