Found unwanted links in my blog text

  • Hatul666

    (@hatul666)


    9 years ago

    Hi guys!

    I woke up this morning finding unwanted SEO links and added texts in my blog!
    How do I prevent this kind of stuff???

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  • liquid-web-design-london

    (@liquid-web-design-london)

    Hey,

    Some naughty hacker has got in.

    Change all passwords for all users on the site and delete links. If admin username is “admin” – change that also. Very easy to guess.

    Change all FTP passwords. Change your cPanel password.

    Make sure you install a plugin like https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/limit-login-attempts/ to ensure people can’t just guess passwords. Then you should be good.

    Thread Starter Hatul666

    (@hatul666)

    That’s the thing, you have to connect to the FTP using an SSL file, and since I don’t think anyone has got it – it’s a direct hack to the WP-admin dashboard through the website.

    I don’t have a cPanel. Just PHPmyadmin installed on the server.

    I don’t have an “admin” username.

    I installed 2 different plugins:
    Anti-Malware
    and
    Sucuri Security

    and one of them is alerting me via email about an attempt to login to my account without any success – with the IP ect’.

    Anything else you think I should do?
    How did he hack this anyway :S
    Kinda strange.

    Thread Starter Hatul666

    (@hatul666)

    I am looking at the dashboard of “Sucuri Security” and see the login attempts.
    I see someone is trying to log in using my unique username (not “admin”) without any cucess.
    How the hell did he get that :S ?

    Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    You need to do much more than simply change your passwords. Carefully follow https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked

    And see https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/stop-user-enumeration/

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