We have been consulted about a new type of malware that hooks the search results of site searches in WordPress to search engines, and here is a case study of it.
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We will introduce the strongest file write permissions (permissions) to prevent malware infection in cases such as repeated malware infections in WordPress.
This section explains how site operators can deal with a red screen on a WordPress site that says “This site may cause damage to your computer.
Recently there has been an increase in WordPress malware that displays a fake browser update page. We will explain this malware.
This section describes malware files including index.html.bak.bak that infects index.php.
We will explain about Japanese SEO Spam, which is a malware that embeds fake Japanese product sites in WordPress.
This section explains how to rewrite the version to a higher value so that only certain plugins cannot be updated in WordPress.
We have received several inquiries about the “Detected Unauthorized Access List” feature of the WordPress Doctor Malware Scanner, so we will explain it here.
The most common type of WordPress tampering these days is the hacking of WordPress sites for SEO purposes. We will explain this SEO spam.
We will explain how to deal with spam indexing, a common symptom of recent WordPress tampering, in which pages that you do not remember creating are caught in the search results.
It is said that 60% of WordPress hacks are program (theme or plugin) vulnerabilities. We will explain how to check for vulnerabilities in your plugins individually.
At WordPress Doctor, we perform malware removal and security measures on behalf of more than several hundred sites per year. Based on this experience, we would like to share with you the characteristics of sites that have been hacked, hijacked, or defaced.
Taking advantage of the convenience of being able to operate multiple domain sites under a single server contract, malware today often analyzes the server folder structure and spreads infection from one site to the folders of other sites (domains).
A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the Jetpack plugin for WordPress and a version update has been distributed. This section explains how to deal with this vulnerability.
This section explains how to limit the computers that can log in to the WordPress admin screen by IP.
Here are some of the types of malware embedded in WordPress that are common these days. If similar code is included in the site’s program, we suspect that WordPress has been hacked and tampered with.
A new type of malware has been reported that illegally installs a plugin that can execute PHP code in WordPress and embeds malware in the database.
Content Security Policy and how to set it up in WordPress.
