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“Display Widgets” WordPress Plugin (200,000+ Installs) Spam (wordfence.com)
2 points by namanyayg on Sept 14, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The follow up [1] identified "Mason Soiza" as a spammer/malware distributor who did the same with many plugins on many sites for many years, and the author did a great job tracking everything down.

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[1] https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/09/man-behind-plugin-spa...




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