Ostensibly a blogging platform, WordPress has quietly become one of the foundational pillars of the modern web, used as the basic format for millions of websites run by single users to massive corporations. But that ubiquity has made WordPress an easy target for hackers and scammers. Web hosting and service provider GoDaddy reports that a new infection is spreading quickly across WordPress implementations, loading up plugins that present users with fake Chrome messages that trick visitors into downloading and installing malware. Over 6,000 WordPress-based sites have been loaded up with these b…