Security researchers identified a sophisticated malware campaign targeting WordPress websites, where threat actors embedded malicious code within core files to facilitate unauthorized redirects and search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning. The infection was traced to the wp-settings.php file, a fundamental component of the WordPress framework, which had been altered to include two anomalous lines of PHP […]

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