LAST UPDATED: 2026-06-18
DEFAULT SEVERITY LEVEL: CRITICAL
This Special Report contains information about compromised legitimate WordPress sites that are believed to have been used in the operation of the SocGholish malware framework. The data is being shared as an output of the continuing international Law Enforcement cyber crime disruption effort called Operation Endgame, which had a third season of action announced on November 13th 2025, that continued with further disruption on June 18th 2026. The Special Report dated 2026-06-18 contains data covering the period between 2023-05-17 and 2026-05-25.
Shadowserver Special Reports are unlike all of our other standard free daily network reports. They do not cover a specific daily 24-hour time period.
Instead, we send out Special Reports in situations where we are able to share one-time, high value datasets that we feel should be reported responsibly for maximum public benefit. Sometimes there are incidents when it would be useful to be able to notify potential victims about events or breaches that may have impacted them outside of the previous 24-hour period, when it may take a number of days for incident responders to conduct forensic investigations and analyzed data becomes available for sharing with potential victims. Although the events included in these Special Reports will fall outside of our usual 24-hour daily reporting window, we believe that there would still be significant benefit to our constituents in receiving and, hopefully, acting on the retrospective data.
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Note that the data shared across Special Reports may differ on a case by case basis, hence the report formats for individual Special Reports may be different.
Note that exact timestamps were not available for individual events, so the timestamp field is set to “2026-16-18 00:00:00”.
This Special Report has severity level CRITICAL set on all events. Severity levels are described here.
Filename prefix: 2026-06-18-special. Note: these are accessible in the API using 2026-06-18 as the search date.