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Tag Archives: WPCrafter

24 Jan 2025

New Insecure WordPress Plugin Marketed With Fake Norton Secured and (Retired) McAfee SECURE Security Seals

Yesterday, we reported on a new plugin from a WordPress plugin developer Brainstorm Force with a long track record of poor security, unsurprisingly was also insecure. One thing that we noticed while looking into that is on the homepage for that new plugin, SureDash, was that midway down the page, there are a couple security seals, Norton Secured and McAfee SECURE, around the logo for PayPal:

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26 Sep 2023

Sucuri Security and Solid Security Plugins Won’t Stop Websites From Being Hacked

While looking into some information for a post we were preparing recently, we ran across a promoted testimonial for a security provider named MalCare, coming from the person behind WPCrafter, which is marketed as WordPress tutorials for non-techies. The testimonial begins:

I had been running iThemes, WordFence & Sucuri, but they kept getting hacked. [Read more]