How to Clean Hacked Website – ESDS VTMScan

Before we begin to understand how to clean websites that have been hacked. Let’s first know the possible reasons why websites get attacked. Following are the reasons highlighted by Google in one of their reports:

Compromised credentials: The two ways by which attackers figure out user id’s and passwords of an account is either by using a password guessing technique or by trying combinations and variations of passwords. Compromised credentials can cause harm to user accounts, to prevent this it is wise to set a strong password. Another way is to apply a two-step verification for secured authentication.

Website security not updated:

Many times applications and software's are not up-to-the-mark when it comes to the updates. Such applications miss on a huge part of security and end up being in serious issues. Hosting providers and website owners should make sure the software version, plugins, CMS, are automatically updated. If that isn’t possible, make sure you set up a routine for manual checking of updates.

Insecure plugins:

In order to make sure that a websites plugins are patched well, ensure that you get all the plugins removed that no longer make sense and are no longer being maintained by the creators. Also it is a good practice to remove all the files related to the plugins when you get rid of the plugin entirely, rather than just disabling it.

Security policy holes:

According to a Google report website admins should not neglect security policies. Users shouldn’t be allowed to set passwords that are weak in strength. Also, users shouldn’t be given free admin access, also if secured HTTP is not enabled your website can get attacked. If you want to protect your site, there has to be a high level of security enforced on it.

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