{"id":765,"date":"2019-11-06T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T02:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/?p=765"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:37:20","slug":"wp-vcd-the-malware-you-installed-on-your-own-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-vcd-the-malware-you-installed-on-your-own-site\/","title":{"rendered":"WP-VCD: The Malware You Installed On Your Own Site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wordfence report on WP-VCD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most prevalent malware infections facing the WordPress ecosystem in recent weeks is a campaign known as WP-VCD. Despite the relatively long existence of the campaign, the Wordfence threat intelligence team has associated WP-VCD with a higher rate of new infections than any other WordPress malware every week since August 2019, and the campaign shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-wordfence\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"aOZzbuzL9F\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/wp-vcd-the-malware-you-install-on-your-own-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP-VCD: The Malware You Installed On Your Own Site<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;WP-VCD: The Malware You Installed On Your Own Site&#8221; &#8212; Wordfence\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/wp-vcd-the-malware-you-install-on-your-own-sites\/embed\/#?secret=aOZzbuzL9F\" data-secret=\"aOZzbuzL9F\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wordfence report on WP-VCD One of the most prevalent malware infections facing the WordPress ecosystem in recent weeks is a campaign known as WP-VCD. Despite the relatively long existence of the campaign, the Wordfence threat intelligence team has associated WP-VCD with a higher rate of new infections than any other WordPress malware every week since &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"WP-VCD: The Malware You Installed On Your Own Site\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/wp-vcd-the-malware-you-installed-on-your-own-site\/#more-765\" aria-label=\"Read more about WP-VCD: The Malware You Installed On Your Own Site\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/websitepsychiatrist.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}