Then came the outage. One morning several sites hosted on his server returned blank pages. Visitors saw only “500 Internal Server Error.” When Omar logged into the Plesk panel, the interface was sluggish, with missing features and gatekeeping prompts where license checks used to be. A security scanner he ran flagged files in the Plesk installation that had been altered—backdoors, obfuscated scripts, and outbound connections attempting to phone home to unknown IPs. The nulled package had come bundled with more than a license crack.