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The Man Behind Plugin Spam: Mason Soiza

This post is part of a series. This is the second post and a follow-up to our first story titled “Display Widgets Plugin Includes Malicious Code to Publish Spam on WP Sites“. There is a third post in this series which explains how the same spammer influenced a total of 9 WordPress plugins over a …
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Display Widgets Plugin Includes Malicious Code to Publish Spam on WP Sites

Note: This post is the first part of a series. The series has a second detailed follow-up which discusses the identity of the person behind the Display Widgets plugin spam.

404 to 301 Plugin Considered Harmful

Yesterday we received a site cleaning request where one of our customers was seeing spammy links, Payday Loans in this case, injected into their WordPress website page content.

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