ragingeagle

Thanks Gioni, close this one out.
Terry

Gioni

Yes, I do. My site was down, due to hacking, while I was hospitalized and recovering. When I recovered it from a backup it was hacked withing 48 hours. I had wordfence running but it didn’t make any difference. I recovered the site a second time and it was hacked by the next morning.

I installed free WP Cerber and found over 50 FAILED attempts to hack the next day. I immediately purchased WP Cerber professional. I have had to delete over 10,000 traffic entries from Traffic Inspector in the first month of using Cerber. In the 7 days since then I have over 300 failed hack attempts. I have just over 100 blacklisted URLs that professional WP Cedrber has protected me from.

I am exporting traffic archival entries to excel files about once a month to keep the data storage more reasonable.

Kudos on the BEST site protection I have ever had.
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NOTE: I do not allow anyone to register on my site. It is informational and, basically, opinion. Would allowing registration, upon review, increase the chance of being hacked?

The only problem I am still having is with repeated requests to log in. I had thought it was due to my VPN but it happens even without using the VPN and, almost immediately after clicking on “Site Health Screen” on the WordPress Dashboard.

I do not remember having this problem prior to installing WP Cerber but I don’t know where the site health is coming from as I deleted the plugin “Site Health and Troubleshooting” and can’t really find direct “causality” only anecdotal “correlation.

Thank you again,
Terry

Gioni

Apologies, too many years writing crime reports, LoL.

The basic question was that on 5/14/2020, overnight, I received a scan report showing 96 critical errors. Most of the “errors” were linked to updraft plus.

I have no idea what caused them but suspected a glitched update attempt, the day before, of update plus plugin.

I only have 9 plugins, total, basically the minimum to safely exist and operate.

I always use the new plugin page to install/activate/delete plugins.

Scans occur automatically (no idea of periodicity).

Wordfence just completed the first scan, since the one in question, about 90 minutes ago, and it is now reporting “No new issues have been found”, There is one previously ignored issue.

I have no idea what caused the 96 errors or why they disappeared between scans.

I did have the “Health Check and Troubleshooting” plugin installed but, every time I clicked on it in Dashboard, it demanded I log in so I deleted it.

In Telecommunications we used to call this kind of error FM, F…. Magic. I have no better explanation, LoL.

The problem appears to have fixed itself. Apologies for taking up your time and thank you for your help.

Terry

Thank you Gioni.
I do still have Wordfence activated and do not have any old, undeleted plugins. Does Wordfence cause any conflicts with Cerber that would indicate I should remove Wordfence? If not I’ll just “ignore” that particular threat as it appears it’s part of Wordfence.

Should I also “ignore” the “suspicious directives”
“Line 42: https://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$”
in the “/.htaccess” file (medium threat) also?

Thank you again for your assistance
RE