index.php Files with the Comment “Silence is golden.” on a WordPress Website...
When it comes to dealing with hacked websites a lot of people would be best off leaving it to professionals (assuming you can find one, among all the unqualified companies), as it is easy for people to...
View ArticleThe Likely Reason Malware Keeps Returning to Your WordPress Website
One question that comes up from time to time when dealing with malware infected WordPress websites is why does malware keep returning to the website. While there are multiple reasons that can occur,...
View ArticleDealing With a Hacked WordPress Website Without a Backup
One question that comes up from time to time when we are brought in to deal with hacked WordPress websites is can the website be cleaned up if there isn’t a backup. In almost all situations, the answer...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need to Start From Scratch if Your WordPress Website is Infected...
When it comes to dealing with a WordPress website that has been infected with malware, sometimes the idea of dealing with it by starting over is suggested. Not only is that not usually necessary, it...
View ArticleSiteLock is Still Leaving Websites in a Broken State After Incomplete Malware...
It usually isn’t too difficult to properly clean up malware infected websites, but that doesn’t mean that security companies won’t cut corners. Here was someone recently looking for help after SiteLock...
View ArticleHow Another Hacker Was Able to Re-Add a Malicious User to a Hacked WordPress...
In October, we wrote about how a hacker was able to re-add a malicious user to a hacked WordPress site using a database trigger. That isn’t the only way they can do that, as we found while working on...
View ArticleWordPress Security Plugins Won’t Fully Disinfect a Hacked WordPress Website
When it comes to cleaning up hacked WordPress websites, there is a lot of advice suggesting solutions that are easy, but don’t properly address the situation. That leads to continuing issues that could...
View ArticleWordfence Care Failed to Resolve Reoccurring Malware Issue on WordPress Website
When it comes to cleaning up hacked WordPress websites, the most important part of doing that is often not done. That being trying to figure out how the website was hacked and fixing that. Sometimes...
View ArticleWordfence Security Daily Malware Scans Are Not the Way to Clean Up a Malware...
If your WordPress website has been hacked and contains malware, a common suggestion for cleaning it up is to use the Wordfence Security plugin. There are a number of problems with that. One being that...
View ArticleIt Shouldn’t Take SiteLock Days to Remove Malware From a Hacked WordPress...
In dealing with hacked websites, a company that we used to have come up a lot in conversations with clients was SiteLock. There have been many problems we have run across with them in past years. We...
View ArticleWhy Your Website is Broken or Down After Having Automated Malware Removal Done
It isn’t uncommon to see people complaining about their websites being broken or down after having a malware removal service deal with malware that had been on the website. If the website wasn’t having...
View ArticleThe Location of Malware on a Website Probably Won’t Show Source of the Hack
It isn’t uncommon to see people claiming that certain software is the cause of their website being hacked based solely on malicious code being found in a file from the software. In reality, the files...
View ArticleSucuri and MalCare Don’t Address the Source of Hacked Websites, Leading to...
Earlier in the week, we were mentioning that many hack cleanup providers don’t do the essential work of trying to figure out how websites were hacked. If you hire one of them, you might get lucky, and...
View ArticleMalware Didn’t Get on Your Website Through a WordPress Update
When it comes to figuring out how websites have been infected with malware or otherwise hacked, people often assume something that happened around the same time as they became aware of the hack caused...
View ArticleHow to Safely Remove Malware From a WordPress Website
If you have malware on your WordPress website, you are not having a great time and you don’t want to make the situation worse by causing more problems when removing it. From our years of cleaning up...
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