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Why thousands of websites are hacked every day

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Sleep tight, website owners! While you're proudly looking at your poorly designed WordPress blog, automated bots are aggressively breaching over 30,000 sites daily. Cybercriminals don't care if your traffic is low; they just want to inject malicious code to sell counterfeit sneakers or mine cryptocurrency using your server's processing power.

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Why thousands of websites are hacked every day
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