Balada Injector: Synopsis of a Massive Ongoing WordPress Malware Campaign

Our team at Sucuri has been tracking a massive WordPress infection campaign since 2017 — but up until recently never bothered to give it a proper name. Typically, we refer to it as an ongoing long lasting massive WordPress infection campaign that leverages all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities. Other organizations and blogs have described it in a similar manner, sometimes adding terms like “malvertising campaign” or naming domains that it was currently used (which amounts to several hundred over the past 6 years).

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