Guru's Tech Bytes — April 14, 2026
Good morning. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, Ep. 011, for Tuesday, April 14th, 2026. First up, a rather alarming supply chain attack in the WordPress ecosystem. Someone has quietly purchased thirty WordPress plugins and injected backdoors into every single one of them. The compromised plugins were pushing malicious code to live sites through routine updates, and the scale of it is staggering, with hundreds of thousands of installations affected. It's a stark reminder that in open-source, trust is earned — and apparently, also purchased. Second, Google has announced a new spam policy targeting…
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