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.
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This section describes a file in which redirect hack code is often embedded, which causes a WordPress-created site to jump to another site when accessed (redirect).
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.
One of the methods of WordPress hacking is for hackers to manipulate the database and add unauthorized users without permission. We recommend that you regularly check your WordPress account to ensure that no unauthorized users have been added to your account.
There are various methods by which WordPress can be hacked, the most common of which is called an injection attack. This section describes these injection attacks.
Our client asked us if we could prevent the attacks themselves, since hackers have not stopped attacking them. Here is an explanation.
Here are some ways to check for vulnerabilities in WordPress themes and plugins.
This section describes 10 common symptoms of WordPress being hacked (tampering malware infection).
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.
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.
Here is what to do when the browser screen turns red when accessing your (your company’s) site and a warning appears on that screen. Suddenly a warning screen appears when accessing the company’s website. When accessing your company’s website, the browser screen
There have been an increasing number of cases of web shells, a type of WordPress malware, becoming more sophisticated in recent years. We will explain about web shells.
When WordPress may be infected with malware (virus or tampering), you can easily use a plugin to inspect and remove malware. The following is a list of the main types of malware behavior on websites and malware scanning and disinfection plug-ins.
We will explain about small.php, a malware that has been expanding recently.
WordPress is hacked more often than other CMSs, but this is due to the overwhelming popularity of WordPress itself.
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 look at the PHP source code of a WordPress theme or plugin, you will see in many of its files that if ( ! defined( ‘ABSPATH’ )) at the top. I would like to explain the reason for this statement and its effect.
The automatic update of WordPress has failed. Please try updating again.” This page explains what kind of security concerns there are and how to deal with them.
