WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory
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WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory

The Hacker News · Oct 01, 2026

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WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory
Security October 1, 2026

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the injected content. Sucuri has described the malware as a "self-healing mesh" that's

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