Popular WordPress plugins backdoored after ownership change, putting thousands of websites at risk

A popular brand of WordPress plugins was recently weaponized to download and spread malicious code. The new, potentially ...

WordPress plugin suite hacked to push malware to thousands of sites

More than 30 WordPress plugins in the EssentialPlugin package have been compromised with malicious code that allows ...
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Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted backdoors in all of them

An attacker purchased 30+ WordPress plugins on Flippa, planted backdoors that lay dormant for eight months, then activated ...
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30 WordPress Plugins Bought and Backdoored: The 2026 Supply Chain Attack Explained

A 2026 WordPress supply-chain attack allegedly turned 30+ sold plugins into a dormant backdoor operation that hid SEO spam from site owners, persisted beyond a forced update, and exposed deep ...

Cloudflare made a WordPress for AI agents

It announced a new open-source system, called EmDash, that’s supposed to address the “core problems that WordPress cannot ...

Redpanda Connect Breaks Down Data Silos with Salesforce Connectors, Streaming CDC for Oracle and DynamoDB

Redpanda, creators of the Redpanda Agentic Data Plane (ADP) for enterprise AI, today announced the general availability of four new components in Redpanda Connect: an Amazon Dynam ...