Security

Malicious WordPress Plugins Used to Mine Cryptocurrencies

Security researchers at Sucuri have discovered a number of fake and malicious WordPress plugins that are being used not just to maintain access on the compromised websites but also to mine cryptocurrencies.

WPframework is a commonly used WordPress malicious plugin that hides itself to be a legitimate plugin, but its a PHP backdoor that will allow attackers to maintain their access even after the initial infection vector has been cleaned up.

The plugin will download Linux executable binary files to mine cryptocurrencies in the background.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is a widely used open source content management system (CMS) written in PHP with back-end MySQL database. WordPress is considered to be the easiest and most powerful blogging and website content management system in existence today. Right now, there are around 75,000,000 websites are using WordPress.

June G. Bauer

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