Vulnerability Bulletins |
Podcast Episode 35: Security Researcher Jem Turner Talks About Pipdig Scandal |
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| Affected software | Wordpress |
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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/08/podcast-episode-35-security-researcher-jem-turner-talks-about-pipdig-scandal/ Jem Turner was one of the security researchers that found malicious code in Pipdig’s P3 plugin. Both Jem and Wordfence’s Mikey Veenstra found the P3 plugin to contain a number of suspicious or malicious features, including a remote “killswitch,” an obfuscated function used to change users’ passwords, and code which generated hourly requests More info: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2019/08/podcast-episode-35-security-researcher-jem-turner-talks-about-pipdig-scandal/ |
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