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<p>Everyone's telling you the same thing right now: update WordPress. Which is, fine, yes, obviously but that's not enough. Patching closes the hole. What is someone is already In

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<p>Minute 0 - bot finds your unpatched plugin, drops a 39-byte backdoor disguised as .access.log.php, deletes the dropper. No trace.</p> <p>Minute 1 - hidden admin account named

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<p>Most WordPress security advice is useless.</p> <p>"Use a strong password." "Keep plugins updated." "Install a security plugin."</p> <p>These are fine, but they don't tell you