The screen loaded beautifully. The dashboard was crisp. The investment tiers were easy to set up. It worked flawlessly. Leo handed the site over to his client, got paid, and felt like a genius. He had saved his client money and delivered a premium product.

Leo frantically logged into the server. He started digging through the raw PHP code of the Investorm script he had installed. He searched for words like eval , base64 , and shell —the classic fingerprints of malicious code.

But there was a catch. The official license cost hundreds of dollars.