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Hackers target critical WordPress plugin flaw to install backdoors and create admin accounts

AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages plugin – a plugin designed to make webpage load faster on mobile devices. It disappeared from the official WordPress plugin repository on 21 October, with its 100,000+ users greeted with a message saying: “This plugin was closed on October 21, 2018 and is no longer available for download” An update on the developers blog claimed that the plugins withdrawal was just a temporary situation that would be resolved in a couple of days once a security vulnerability had been fixed.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/hackers-target-critical-wordpress-plugin-flaw-to-install-backdoors-and-create-admin-accounts/

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