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WordPress malware campaign hides payloads in Steam profiles
Nearly 2,000 WordPress websites were infected with malware that relies on Steam Community profile comments to hide command-and-control (C2) data. [...]
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🔍Threat Overview
A malware campaign infected nearly 2,000 WordPress websites by hiding command-and-control data in Steam Community profile comments, using invisible Unicode characters as an encoding mechanism.
⚙️Technical Details
Affected Systems
WordPress websites
Attack Vectors
Stolen admin loginsCompromised FTP/SFTP credentialsVulnerable WordPress theme or pluginSupply-chain compromise
💥Impact Assessment
Severity: High
Who Is at Risk
WordPress website owners and administrators
🛡️Recommended Actions
1Check for references to Steam Community URLs, suspicious external JavaScript injections, outbound connections from WordPress servers to Steam, and unexpected scripts loading from domains such as hello-mywordl[.]info.
2Verify invisible Unicode characters and _transient_caption_ cache entries
3Restore from a known good backup before the infection date
📦Affected Products
WordPress websites
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