Ransomware Targeting WordPress – An Emerging Threat

Recently, the Wordfence team has seen ransomware being used in attacks targeting WordPress. We are currently tracking a ransomware variant we are calling “EV ransomware.” The following post describes what this ransomware does and how to protect yourself from being hit by this attack.

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/08/ransomware-wordpress/