(help) Got hacked !!!

insom · Jun 18, 2020

I just checked google webmaster for one of my websites and noticed almost 40k internals links. My website just has 5 pages and 5 blog posts.

In site:Sitename.com its showing 15k results and almost all of them are redirecting to some Spanish ecomm website.

what I did till now:
changed the password
remove all the silly plugins
updated the Wordpress version

Can anybody suggest me what to do more? how to remove those links?

oliverseccombe · Jun 18, 2020

Did your host account get hacked? I would check.

Do you have backups? If not, your host might. See if you can revert to an older version of your site. If you don't have daily backups, this is a sign that you should start doing daily backups of all your websites.

Also, do 2FA on every account that is worth anything. Email, host logins, social, wp login, paypal, bank accts, etc.

insom · Jun 18, 2020

I don't think so its host as my other website on the same hosting seems normal
but thanks for the tip I will contact my hosting maybe they can help

oliverseccombe · Jun 18, 2020

Is your username "admin"? That's the most targeted username... if you use it, I suggest changing it to something like "45mfSDA32mS" -- something non-identifiable

Are you running on the most recent version of PHP?

Azaan · Jun 18, 2020

Do you use Wordpress? Have you recently used a nulled theme or plugin?

insom · Jun 18, 2020

no that username was not like that and yeah I was using 7 something PHP version.
most probably it happen coz of some plugins (not sure though)

insom · Jun 18, 2020

yeah I am using Wordpress..
not exactly nulled but I had some plugins there which I didn't updated from almost 1 years and also didn't updated WordPress
I had some free version of plugins from Wordpress and also a theme that was shared by a reputable member here.

Compazz · Jun 18, 2020

check your .httaccess file am sure you will find some shady codes / redirects.

insom · Jun 18, 2020

Compazz said:
check your .httaccess file am sure you will find some shady codes / redirects.

I will check but I am not sure If I will be able to manage that.. Right now reading some blogs from wordfence website to get some idea.

Also, my hosting suggested me that they can run some security check to see if there is any malicious files present and they can restore the website to some previous date

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