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Sead Fadilpašić

UNBELIEVABLE: Multiple wordpress plugins are being hacked to attack websites across the world - Caught on Camera

Laptop computer displaying logo of WordPress, a free and open-source content management system (CMS).

Thousands of WordPress websites are at risk of being completely taken over by hackers, after the updating process of multiple plugins was compromised to deploy malicious code. 

Security researchers from Wordfence, an organization that monitors the security of the world’s biggest website builder platform, warned that they so far discovered five plugins whose patching functionality had been poisoned. 

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