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Exposed Hacker Server Reveals WP-SHELLSTORM Backdooring Thousands of WordPress Sites

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Exposed Hacker Server Reveals WP-SHELLSTORM Backdooring Thousands of WordPress Sites

A cybercrime crew left one of its own servers wide open on the internet for three weeks, and it exposed the operation's inner workings: the hacking tools, the activity logs, and target lists naming more than 1.4 million websites. Far few…

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