Supply-chain compromise affecting an organization (software)
Rank Math PRO WordPress plugin downloads and updates delivered between October 15-16, 2026 contained malware with self-restoring backdoor capability. The compromised versions were distributed via rankmath.com and update mechanisms during the specified UTC window.
Sources
- Primary source on file. It names the organization, so it is not linked while this entry is anonymized.
- Upstream: Security news (RSS + Claude). The upstream record names the organization, so it is not linked here.
- Candidate incidents extracted from public security reporting; every entry links its article
Defenses for this class of incident
all categoriesA supply chain sits in these classes of the AI-security landscape. The companies below work on that class of problem. This is a taxonomy, not a claim that any of them would have changed this incident.
Vendor data: AI Security Startups Map by Prompt Security (CC BY 4.0), synced daily. startups.prompt.security. Paid placements are labelled Sponsored; HeimWall, which runs this site, is labelled Operator. 460 companies in the directory.
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