There’s another ransomware story this week, but this one comes with a special twist. If you’ve followed this column for long, ...

A widespread exploitation campaign is targeting WordPress websites with GutenKit and Hunk Companion plugins vulnerable to critical-severity, old security issues that can be used to achieve remote code ...

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