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I had never heard of iThemes Security<\/a>, but the code looked like malware I’ve seen before. And since this site, according to the owner, never had the iThemes Security plugin installed, I was suspicious. Taking a look at iThemes, this code does not look like anything they include in htaccess<\/a>. It looks to me like malware is using the iThemes Security name at #BEGIN and #END to camouflage their code. I restored a basic WP htaccess file. And yes, there were a number of oddly-named php files which I removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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