Comment by post-it
6 hours ago
The attacker may have known about the exploit for a long time and were saving it, but upon finding out that it was about to be disclosed, they decided it was now or never.
6 hours ago
The attacker may have known about the exploit for a long time and were saving it, but upon finding out that it was about to be disclosed, they decided it was now or never.
How could he have known on Oct 17 that it was about to be disclosed? The dates only leaked on Oct 20.
You're asking: How could a hacker - with an exploit that potentially allows him/her to break into half the computers on the internet - know some secret information that is stored on a computer on the internet?
It could also just have been a run-of-the-mill exploit in WordPress.
A leak is a much simpler explanation than an independent discovery who then also managed to discover before publication that someone else has also discovered it.