{"id":3685,"date":"2025-05-02T07:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/fake-security-plugin-on-wordpress-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T07:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:01:04","slug":"fake-security-plugin-on-wordpress-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/fake-security-plugin-on-wordpress-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Security Plugin on WordPress Enables Remote Admin Access for Attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fake Security Plugin on WordPress Enables Remote Admin Access for Attackers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting WordPress sites that disguises the malware as a security plugin.<br \/>\nThe plugin, which goes by the name &#8220;WP-antymalwary-bot.php,&#8221; comes with a variety of features to maintain access, hide itself from the admin dashboard, and execute remote code.<br \/>\n&#8220;Pinging functionality that can report back to a command-and-control (C&amp;C) server<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/fake-security-plugin-on-wordpress.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Security Plugin on WordPress Enables Remote Admin Access for Attackers Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting WordPress sites that disguises the malware as a security plugin. The plugin, which goes by the name &#8220;WP-antymalwary-bot.php,&#8221; comes with a variety of features to maintain access, hide itself from the admin dashboard, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}