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…