Hidden in Plain Sight: The WordPress Hack Only Google Could See
I only went in to add one file It started as one of those small, satisfying jobs. I was working with Claude, the AI assistant I use for much of my website work, to put together an llms.txt file for a client’s website. It’s a simple text file that helps AI tools understand what a site is about, and I’d been meaning to roll them out across my clients’ sites for a while. To write it, Claude read through the live site to gather the details. Partway through, it stopped and flagged something I hadn’t asked about: right at the...
Card Testing Bots Don’t Care How Small Your Shop Is
One of my clients runs a lovely little handmade shop on WooCommerce. It’s not a big operation. It sells a few orders a week, mostly to regulars and people who’ve found her at local markets. It’s hardly the kind of place you’d expect criminals to target. This week she sent me her failed orders. There were five in ten days, three of them in the last three days. Four had exactly the same order: two of her cheapest product, £10.50 with postage. If you’ve looked after WooCommerce sites for any length of time, you’ll know what that means. Card testing...