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WordPress Hacked: What to do if your website is no longer secure
Your WordPress website is under continuous attack on the web: Your WordPress website or blog is no longer accessible? You no longer have access to the backend? Content is being displayed to your visitors that you have not published? - This sounds scary and that's why we stand by your side and advise you on the necessary steps to get your content management system working again!
Around 40% of all websites on the web are powered by WordPress. Among the top 10 - content management systems (CMS), that equates to a whopping 64% market share (as of July 2022). The massive distribution and popularity of WordPress makes the system an attractive target for hackers. The target is not individual companies or people, but known vulnerabilities in the core and plugins. The main cause of hacked websites is therefore missed security updates. The same applies to TYPO3, Contao and all other CMS and store systems.
Signs that your WordPress site is compromised
Even with seemingly perfect protection from a WordPress firewall or similar, is your WordPress site not behaving as it should? Take a look at the signs to check if your site is affected:
- You can't log in anymore?
- Your website has changed without you doing anything?
- The content of your website has changed?
- Your site redirects to another site?
- When you or other users try to access the website, you get a warning in the browser?
- When you search for your website, Google gives you a warning that you may have been hacked?
- You have received a breach notification or an unexpected change from your security plugin?
- Your hosting provider has warned you about unusual activity
- on your account?
What do the attackers want to achieve with the hack?
The main goal is to be able to control the website account. By depositing webshell interfaces, remote access to the web server can be enabled. Also, hidden backdoors can be used to gain access again, even if parts of the malicious files have already been deleted. This gives the attacker a free hand and complete control. The following symptoms may occur:
Redirects & Pop-ups
When you open a web page in the Google search results, the actual page does not open, but you are redirected to a completely different domain with often dubious content. A random redirect can also be triggered during navigation after you have already triggered the entry via the hacked website.
Black-Hat SEO
The website content is placed in heaps with hard-fought keywords or the meta description is completely exchanged, where explicit specifications of Google are disregarded and subverted. Everything to strengthen the own ranking in search engines in an unnatural way and to manipulate artificially.
Spam emails
Using a spam script placed on the web server, the hackers send masses of spam mails. The result can be blacklist entries that later disrupt email traffic. Most web hosts recognize the sending of mass mails, so that this is often quickly stopped.
Virus & Malware Distribution
If your website distributes viruses or malware, this can have far-reaching consequences and should best be shut down immediately. Your site visitors catching malware should be avoided at all costs. Extortion software can lock your PC and then demand a ransom for its release.
Securing WordPress, after and before the hack
Let the professionals do it! We know the attack points, vulnerabilities, security gaps of WordPress and ensure the success of your website. As WordPress security experts, we are happy to advise you in Halle / Leipzig and the surrounding area on your installation.
alphared cybersecurity GmbH & Co. KG
Breslauer Straße 49
04299 Leipzig (Germany)
Fon: +49 (0) 341 / 860 70 80
Fax: +49 (0) 32 12 / 104 30 74
Mail: info@alphared-cybersecurity.com