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Avoid Malware Scanners That Use Insecure Hashing

In this post I’m going to discuss a major problem that exists with several WordPress malware scanners: The use of weak hashing algorithms for good and bad file identification. Some malware and antivirus scanners outside of WordPress suffer from this same issue. For brevity, I’m going to refer to this as the “weak hash scanner” issue. This …
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