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WordCamp Asia 2027 Heads to Malaysia
The WordPress community will be heading to Southeast Asia once again, as WordCamp Asia 2027 is set to take place in Penang, Malaysia. The announcement was made at the recently concluded WordCamp Asia 2026 in Mumbai.
Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted Backdoors in All of Them
An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins (Essential Plugin portfolio) on Flippa for six figures, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in August 2025, then activated it eight months later to serve cloaked SEO spam exclusively to Googlebot.
Five Secure WordPress Hosting Providers That Handle Backups and Updates
WordPress vulnerabilities increased by 42% in 2025, with 11,334 new issues found across the ecosystem, according to data collected throughout the year. Of those, 1,966 carried high severity scores, meaning they were likely targets for automated mass-scale exploitation.
