One of the rare questions we receive when WordPress Doctor recovers from malware or tampering on behalf of our clients is that they want to know the cause and date of the problem. Here is an explanation of how we can find out.
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We will explain the five most dangerous ways to operate a WordPress site that can lead to it being hacked, defaced, sent to another site, or in the form of embedded malware. We hope that you will use this information as a lesson to the contrary.
We will explain about the type of backdoor that puts the main body of malware code in $_HEADERS, which has been increasingly detected in recent years.
We will explain about small.php, a malware that has been expanding recently.
Here is what to do when you can no longer rewrite or delete HTACCESS due to WordPress malware infection (tampering).
If WordPress redirects you to a different site or disables some features of the administration panel, you may have been infected with malware. In this case, if the malware has been removed and the site keeps re-infecting itself, it is possible that a backdoor, or malicious progra
The types of malware that can infect WordPress will be explained, including viruses, worms, spyware, adware, Trojan horses, ransomware, phishing, SEO spam, etc.
This article describes this type of tampering, as there have been an increasing number of cases in which WordPress has been hacked and a large number of malicious files have been hosted in random one-byte alphanumeric folders without permission.
If you have been infected with a type of WordPress malware that embeds malformed JAVASCRIPT code (which causes malformed redirects and other behavior) in a large number of posts, we will explain how to remove this code.
If you have multiple WordPress sites on your server and find that they are infected with malware, here is what to do.
This page explains how to respond to users (those who use the site) when there is a possibility of damage to users who visit the site, such as being redirected to another site, being sent to a sweepstakes site, or downloading malicious files due to WordPress tampering. This page
The most common type of WordPress tampering today is called SEO hacks (SEO spam), and we will explain examples of SEO hacks and how to deal with them.
We will explain whether or not hacking (tampering and malware infection) can be prevented if you convert your WordPress site to SSL (HTTPS).
Recently there has been an increase in the embedding of JAVASCRIPT-type malware starting with trackmyposs in WordPress core files.
Operating WordPress requires some knowledge of security-related issues. This section will explain some commonly used security-related terms.
This section describes a type of malware that contains a backslash and a string of numbers, such as “\x74”. This section describes a type of malware that contains a string of backslashes and numbers such as “\x5f”.
Here are some security measures that can be taken simply by including the settings in HTACCESS.
WordPress and plugins require updates to close vulnerabilities, but we will explain the most dangerous types of vulnerabilities.
