How Do I Know If My WordPress Site Has Been Hacked?

Usually if there is doubt, there is no doubt. Your WordPress has been hacked. If you find signs of suspicious files or access to your website or likely your website, blog or e-commerce is infected.

The best action to avoid being hacked is a continuous security maintenance. Analysis, detection and malware or backdoor cleaning. If you’re mostly on a reactive mood we explain you how you can detect it and some tools you can use to find out if your website has been hacked.

Which symptoms tell me that my WordPress is hacked?

1- The simplest way to detect if you’ve been hacked is to check that your web is on a blacklist. When the topic is serious, Google itself will display a message on your website that will indicate that your web is not secure. To you and all your users.

How to make sure your website is infected: websites like virustotal will give you this information or in the continuous analysis of the plans of WeSecur.

2- Another possible clear signal is that there’s spam in your Google search results. That means the descriptions of your pages have nothing to do with the content of your site’s page.

How to make sure that your web has been hacked: a simple trick is to type in the search engine site ‘your domain’ and see what comes out. If it’s not your descriptions and the content is inappropriate,you’ve been hacked. Be careful because Google will shortly penalize you and you must gain confidence in your domain and brand again.

3- Your traffic is redirected to other webs using techniques of ransomware or phising. They fake the user to ask for data or promoting another page. Be careful because this may only affect part of your audience. For example just to mobile devices users or users of a particular location.

How to detect if your WordPress have been hacked: you can see it reflected in pop ups in your web, or several new tabs opened, for example.

Which tools can help me to know if my WordPress site has been hacked?

Some of the tools you can use to analyze if your WordPress has been hacked are:

• PHPmyadmin to analyze your database.
• Any continuous analysis tool that gives you information about the malware or attack. You can take the proactive and frequent maintenance or use plans like those of WeSecur.
• Install a script blocker, or script blocker in your browser, either mozilla or chrome. If you have been hacked, you should avoid that while trying to fix your web, your laptop also becomes infected with malware.
• Finally, a very useful tool can be sandbox or any virtual environment. To isolate your computer so that it does not affect the infection of your web, blog or e-commerce.

This will help you to detect you’ve been hacked. Now is time for cleaning your WordPress site, here’s our guide to help you.