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Five signs of WordPress website being attacked by hackers

Now many webmasters will choose the American host to set up the site through WordPress. After the site is successfully established, it will be more or less attacked by hackers. When the WordPress website is attacked by hackers, you may know immediately. But it may not be realized for quite a long time. So here are five basic signs to pay attention to to see if the WordPress site has really been hacked.

1. Unable to log in

This is obvious. If you can't log in to the WordPress control panel, it means you've been hacked (unless it's a prank by a colleague). There may be many reasons, but the main reason is to use one of the following usernames: if this is the case, change the username immediately, because WordPress accounts that use these usernames are often targeted by hackers.

two。 A sudden decrease in traffic

If the site had performed very well and now the traffic suddenly dropped, then the WordPress site could have been attacked by hackers. This is because malicious hackers create the backdoor of the WordPress file system and replace the code with their own scripts and files. In this way, they will redirect traffic to other spam sites, steal private information from visitors, and cause damage in other ways. In addition, once Google discovers that the site has been infected and misbehaved, it will blacklist the site until it is secure, all of which can lead to a sudden drop in traffic.

3. The home page has been destroyed

Most hackers operate in secret, but some hackers like to release their names when they successfully hijack websites. If the home page is destroyed, and the name of the hacker or some form of announcement can be clearly seen, it indicates that the website has been attacked by a hacker and requires immediate action. The main reason for this is that hackers want to hijack websites in exchange for money or other needs.

4. See pop-up windows and other advertisements that are not placed

If you see the WordPress website becoming slow and unresponsive, and now there are pop-up windows, sidebars and other ads, this may be a positive sign that the site has been attacked by hackers. Usually, such attacks are not carried out by hackers. Instead, it is an automatic attack that enters the WordPress core system by protecting weak themes or insecure plug-ins. What makes this a reality is that ads do not appear as logged-in users or users can directly access the site. Instead, ads are displayed only to visitors who come to the site through Google or other recommended sites, which may make it virtually impossible for them to know that the site has been hacked for a long time. In addition, advertising will lead visitors to junk websites, which will not only damage the site and its traffic, but also damage its reputation.

5. There is abnormal activity in the website server log

If there is a very effective way to know whether a website has been attacked by a hacker, it is to check the server log of the website. They are located in the cPanel dashboard and can be accessed by logging in to the hosting account. Under the statistics in cPanel, you will find two kinds of logs:

Access logs: these logs show who accessed WordPress through which IP.

Error logs: these logs show what errors occurred when you modified the WordPress system files.

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