When it comes to try to better understand the security risks that WordPress websites face, one big problem is that security companies and security journalists are often spreading inaccurate and far too often outright false information related to that. In one recent example, news outlets were baselessly claiming, among other things, that hundreds of thousands of WordPress websites had been hacked.

One of the outlets that was a frequent source of that inaccurate information has been the Threatpost. That they would provide misinformation, while being a news outlet, isn’t all that surprising consider they were not even honest about who owned them. As for years they have hidden that they were owned by the major Russian security company Kaspersky. Here is how the About page of their website currently reads: [Read more]