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For years, the gold-standard advice for WordPress website security has been simple: If you want to keep your site safe, stick to major, highly reputable brand names. A massive company has the infrastructure, team, and budget to audit their code and protect your perimeter.

But recent events have exposed a massive flaw in that logic.

When hackers shift from attacking individual sites to targeting the software creators themselves, relying on a big brand's reputation no longer guarantees safety. In fact,