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How botnets are created with hijacked Worpess, fake Flash downloads and Node.js

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I just noticed the website of an old employer has been hacked and some JavaScript is injected into their corporate website that runs on WordPress. Ouch. Of course I notified them about it and they’re just trying to figure out what happened and how to fix it.

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