Meanwhile, back in the real world, away from the bleeding edge of Magento 2, Nexcess has just released a simple-but-useful open-source extension that will log and notify users when there have been been admin user changes made to their Magento system. I’m not responsible for maintaining any active Magento 1 systems at the moment, but if I was I’d install this, or something like it Sophisticated attackers may be able to work around something like this, but the majority of Magento attacks come from unsophisticated attackers.
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