Cyber Crime

Cyber Crime

I estimate 50,000 WordPress sites updated to the malicious Display Widgets plugin code before it was finally removed from the WordPress plugin repository in September!!!

This will cost site owners their SEO rankings as Google finds the hacked sites and downgrades them! Every minute counts with cyber security, had WordPress forced out an upgrade on September 8th/9th (I sent them an updated file to use, they didn’t want it!) it would have protected some sites from being compromised.

I’ve since released a Display Widgets Plugin Security Update and as you can see in the comments users are still being hacked!

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