The O’Brien Media Digital Insider Blog

Firstly, it's important to understand that the reason hackers and cyber criminals want to exploit vulnerabilities in content management systems and websites isn't necessarily just to steal all your user account, contact form, and other data, but also to infect your website visitors and users with malware.

Once the unsuspecting user is infected with malware they are quickly added to a botnet (which is essentially a large group of thousends of infected computers and devices) to be exploited at the malware operators will. This usually includes things like credit card theft, extracting private information or being activated to take part in a DDoS attack, spam attack or other malicious activity.