[HN Gopher] Over 6k WordPress hacked to install plugins pushing ...
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Over 6k WordPress hacked to install plugins pushing infostealers
Author : sandwichsphinx
Score : 17 points
Date : 2024-10-21 19:24 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
| pluc wrote:
| Guess all the "Automattic security team" is busy looking for
| vulnerabilities in competing products.
| bigiain wrote:
| It is, of course, a malware writer's first amendment right to
| publish those plugins...
|
| https://ma.tt/2024/10/first-amendment/
| sksxihve wrote:
| What share of the revenue do the hackers owe Automattic?
| stefanos82 wrote:
| After years of using and developing custom solutions with
| WordPress, as soon as I saw the checkbox fiasco, I said enough is
| enough and to call it quits with WP as a whole and deleted all my
| projects; I prefer to invest my time and energy elsewhere, it's
| not worth it anymore.
| browningstreet wrote:
| I have a few major wordpress projects that rely on a commercial
| Wordpress plugin. There's no place for me to go, at this moment
| in time.
|
| But I'm also personally getting tired of all this. I was
| prepared to dump Apple when they had their CSAM initiative. I
| bought a Tesla and then Elon goes super mad. I run Wordpress
| sites for my income and Matt goes super mad. I run Linux as
| much as I can but a lot of my media output is dependent on
| binary supported video output.
|
| OSS is the foundation of our cloud layers but not amazing for
| desktop loads. Commercial companies are quite shady nowadays,
| and people like me who built their incomes on it have to
| consider how principled they are want to be. If I want to stay
| commercial and prioritize my income, I can't even really
| entertain the principle dimension in my tool chain.
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