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Wordpress Hackers Are Using Vulnerable Plugins To Gain Access To Sites by tycoon101(m): 9:29am On Sep 05, 2019
Hackers are reportedly exploiting vulnerabilities in over ten WordPress plugins in order to backdoor sites with rouge admin accounts.

This is an escalation of an attack that was reported on back in July in which attackers were hijacking sites to serve ads, scams, and malicious app downloads.

Now, the same hacker group is taking complete control of vulnerable sites using similar tactics. ZDNet reports as of August 20 the hacker group modified the read more https://techevangelistseo.com/wordpress-hackers-are-using-vulnerable-plugins-to-gain-access-to-sites/

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