YODA Tool Found ~47,000 Malicious WordPress Plugins Installed in Over 24,000 Sites

01-Jun-22

As many as 47,337 malicious plugins were discovered on 24,931 separate websites, with 3,685 plugins sold on genuine markets, netting the attackers $41,500 in unlawful profits.

According to an 8-year-long study done by a group of Georgia Institute of Technology academics, the findings come from a new tool called YODA, which tries to detect rogue WordPress plugins and track down their origin Read More…