Make sure your WordPress installation is up to date

Maybe interesting reading for users who have their own WordPress installation older than version 2.8.4.

“The newly discovered worm is pretty sneaky to say the least. In a nutshell, it crawls the web looking for vulnerable WordPress installations, makes itself an administrator account, takes full control of the website and posts malware and spam to it. It’s also been reported that it will sometimes disable Defensio and other anti-spam plugins. It can be very hard to detect the new malicious administrator user since it hides itself from the users list using Javascript.”

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