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Exposed Hacker Server Reveals WP-SHELLSTORM Backdooring Thousands of WordPress Sites

📅 10 July 2026 at 11:30 UTC📰 The Hacker NewsView original source ↗
Exposed Hacker Server Reveals WP-SHELLSTORM Backdooring Thousands of WordPress Sites

A cybercrime crew left one of its own servers wide open on the internet for three weeks, and it exposed the operation's inner workings: the hacking tools, the activity logs, and target lists naming more than 1.4 million websites. Far fewer were actually broken into, but the exposed files showed researchers how a mass site-hacking operation runs from the inside. The operation, now tracked as

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