BabaYaga strangely symbiotic Wordpress malware — Research Saturday

Researchers at Defiant recently analyzed a malware family they named "BabaYaga," which has the curious behavior of clearing out other malware and keeping infected sites up to date.

Brad Hass is a senior security analyst at Defiant, and he guides us through their findings.

The research can be found here:

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2018/06/babayaga-wordpress-malware/

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