Month: August 2024

macOS, Sysadmin, Tutorials

macOS launchd: the actual replacement for cron when you want a recurring task on your Mac

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Vintage black twin-bell alarm clock next to a blank notebook on a colorful background of scattered wooden numbers — visual for time-based scheduled tasks (photo: Black Ice / Pexels)

You write a Python script that needs to run every fifteen minutes on your Mac. You add a line to crontab -e, save, walk away. Two days later you check and notice it never ran. The cron file is …

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Security, Tutorials, WordPress

Detecting and cleaning the DOLLY WordPress mu-plugin backdoor

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Hooded figure with neon mask holding tablet displaying 'Uploading Virus' progress bar — visualizing the DOLLY WordPress mu-plugin backdoor exfiltrating credentials

Last week I cleaned a six-site WordPress compromise on one of my OpenLiteSpeed boxes. The most interesting payload was the “DOLLY” mu-plugin family — a credential-harvesting backdoor that hides itself with a few clever tricks and survives most casual cleanups …

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