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14,971 WordPress Sites Cleaned in Global SocGholish Takedown

ID: 9586a57c-1de0-5596-94fe-621e4742b864

STIX ID: report--9586a57c-1de0-5596-94fe-621e4742b864

Feed Name: Security Affairs

Threat Score
85/100

Date Published: 2026-06-19

Date Updated: 2026-06-19

Author: Pierluigi Paganini

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Operation EndGame, a multinational law-enforcement action coordinated through Europol, disrupted the SocGholish/FakeUpdates ecosystem (attributed to TA569) by taking down 106 servers and remediating 14,971 compromised WordPress sites; the report describes SocGholish’s use of injected obfuscated JavaScript, a Keitaro-like TDS operated by TA2726, blob-based cross-frame downloads (GhoLoader/MintsLoader), links to major ransomware families and RATs, and recommended WordPress remediation steps.

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