If you run automated backups, sync log files, or work with data export scripts, Google Drive can quickly turn into a dumping ground. Last week, while cleaning up some folder structures, I found thousands of stray .txt files scattered across subfolders. Clicking them one by one in the web browser was out of the question—unless I wanted my weekend stolen…

Part 4 of a real-world WordPress VPS compromise investigation By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com By this point I had enough evidence to say: The server had been compromised. I had malicious PHP. I had disguised image files. I had a PHP-based file manager. I had an encoded payload. I had a native executable associated with cryptomining. I had suspicious database activity….

Part 3 of a real-world WordPress VPS compromise investigation By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com There was another problem waiting for me after the filesystem investigation. MySQL. And this one was partly my own fault. I had a legitimate reason for allowing remote MySQL connections. Some of my applications live on temporary cloud VPS instances. I create a VPS when I need…

Hey folks, usually, you will find me writing about WordPress database crashes or fixing WooCommerce caching issues here on CrushEdge. But lately, when the four kids are finally asleep and the house is quiet, I have been tinkering with local AI image models. It reminds me a lot of the old 486 PC days. Back then, you would spend three…

Part 2 of a real-world WordPress VPS compromise investigation By SepedaTua — CrushEdge.com In Part 1, I stopped the server and started looking at the filesystem instead of immediately trying to get the websites back online. The first confirmed webshell was bf6f03.php. Then I found something more interesting. The attacker had apparently decided that naming a file shell.php was too…

We have all been there. You set up a cool automated workflow—maybe an image captioning AI on a remote GPU server, a sync script for backups, or a quick data fetcher—and suddenly you realize: “Wait, I need this thing to run continuously every couple of minutes.” Just recently, I was working on a project where I needed to sync a…