Web attacks and infections are growing among SMEs, startups and blogs. The target of a cyber attackers is no longer just big companies. Any website, developed or not with WordPress, Joomla or any other content manager, can be infected.
Not only is suffering from the infection. In several reports and studies it is revealed that internet SMEs, even startups, can fail after a cyber attack, not being able to cope and trace their online business. And that is because infections and attacks can cause a disaster on your online reputation. And make you lose customers or users for good.
How they can infect or attack your web page
Your domain may point to a page of illegal content or maybe it appears harmful advertising on your site. And is that to be able to automate infections the only thing that the attacker must do is look for websites with vulnerabilities and infect one by one. Its main objective is to earn money. Maybe by phishing, cheating your users, with malicious ads or using your website to make attacks.
The most common website infections are:
- Phishing pages
- Malvertising (malicious advertising)
- SEO spam
- Malicious downloads (malicious .exe executables)
- Attacks related to cryptocurrencies
- Credit card thieves (if it is an e-commerce)
- Use your website to carry out DDoS attacks
The main causes of infection in a web
The two key points to avoid many of these attacks are:
- Plugins or issues not updated: it can be tedious to have to update all the plugins every time we receive a notification. But it is just not doing it or having custom plugins that do not allow you to update, one of the entry doors of the attackers.
- Unsafe access. Basically weak passwords, lack of two-factor validation, or protect your web with password. And is that some rules that must meet all secure password are:
- Minimum length of 10 characters
- Some character in uppercase and another in lowercase
- Contain at least 1 digit
- Minimum 1 special character
How to avoid being infected
The actions that we recommend to keep your website free of malware, viruses and attacks are:
- Proactive web monitoring
- Continuous malware cleaning
- Protection against known attacks and vulnerabilities
- Continuous security maintenance
Anyway, if your site has been infected and you do not know what to do, you can count on WESECUR.https://www.wesecur.com/malware-cleaning-services/
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