WordPress Malware Removal

What Makes WordPress Vulnerable?

The easy answer to that is here. Old versions of WordPress, along with flaws in theme and plugin, compounded by the popularity of the CMS, with the end-user thrown into the mix, making for a weak website.

Let’s break down that.

The first issue relates to outdated WordPress versions. Whenever a new version of WordPress is released, users get a nagging message, but many users get pretty good at ignoring the nag. Core vulnerabilities are rarely a matter of themselves. They do exist; the most recent releases of 3.3.3 and 3.4.1 show evidence. WordPress’s core team has been pretty good at rapidly and effectively carrying out security updates, and there is a limited chance of misuse, as long as WordPress users upgrade their installation. Sadly, this is the crux of the problem: WordPress users miss the message. And it is not just novice and casual users of WordPress who are not upgrading. A recent high-profile hack was from the Reuters website, running version 3.1.1 instead of the current version 3.4.1.

A further concern is an instability in plugins and themes. The repository of WordPress has 20,000 plugins and is growing. The plugins are of varying quality; some inevitably have loopholes in protection, while others are out of date. Also, consider all the themes and plugins outside the repository, including commercial products that are distributed on Warez websites free of charge and come packed with malware. Google is our favorite search engine, but the hunt for quality WordPress themes isn’t so sweet.

• Poor credential management
• Poor system administration
• Lack of Web knowledge
• Poor Web hosting
• Out of date software,

The Evolution Of Attacks

With the development of the Internet, the nature of hacking has evolved with it. Hacking began as quite a different animal. Back in the day, it was about demonstrating your technological skill by manipulating a website to do something beyond the expectations of the webmaster; the politics also inspired this. One day you’d wake up in Nigeria or Liberia and find yourself helping the opposition. Hacking these days is all about the money. For example, the latest DNSChanger malware (i.e., the “Net Armageddon” attack) let hackers rake in nearly $14 million until it was thwarted by the FBI and Estonian police last November.

Another technology that has emerged to hack is malnets. These distributed networks of malware are used for anything that involves identity theft, DDoS attacks, spam delivery, drive-by downloads, fake AV, etc. The hackers have their attacks optimized for optimum visibility.

Automation by using bots isn’t their only mechanism. Today, you also have malware automation: using software to rapidly create a payload (i.e., the infection), allowing the attacker to concentrate solely on gaining access to the system. Once the hacker has access to the environment, the auto-generated payload is copied and pasted in. The Blackhole Exploit Kit is among the most prevalent automation devices. This and several other kits are available for a nominal fee online. The charge provides support resources and keeps the package updated to the current bugs with new tools. It is a real enterprise.

Common WordPress Malware Issues

Thousands of type of malware and viruses are present on the Internet; luckily not all of them extend to WordPress. We’ll look at four of the most common attacks against WordPress users here.

• Backdoor
• Drive-by downloads
• Pharma hacks
• Malicious redirects
• SQL Injection.

Hey don’t get scared of these attack, we are here to sort this issues for you.

Are you nervous about your reputation and need a fast and reliable solution to fix your hacked website? I’m here to help you. First of all, we diagnose the problem, and fix it in 24 hours after finding out that it can be wrong. Hacking is a common problem, given the extensive use of third-party plugins and security gaps.

• Repair malware notification from google (red screen)
• Fixing illegal redirecting pages to other sites
• Fixing phishing notice
• Scanning & removing all malicious codes
• Fixing Google blacklist (for SEO)