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Restoring a Defaced website

by Hydroxide
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Recently I realized that a few of my WP sites have been hacked and defaced.
Here's one New Page 1

I have a backup, but it's abit old, around 1 month ago.
What other ways can I take to restore my sites? I also realize that I can actually still access my wp-login and access my dashboard and stuff.
What should I do?

Thanks!
#defaced #restoring #website
  • Profile picture of the author tpw
    If your hosting company is any good, you will find their backups are no older than 48 hours.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Contact your host to see if they can restore a backup. If that was a Wordpress site, I use File Manager in Cpanel to zip up my domain directory. Store the zip file. Then go in and export the database and store it. Something bad happens, just delete all the tables in the database and import the good one, upload the zip file to domain folder and unzip it and you're back in business. Same with an html site, only skip the database step.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hydroxide
      Originally Posted by Micheal D Forbes View Post

      Great. Now I probably have a virus cause I looked at it.

      Guess you made somebody mad, huh?
      No I didn't.. I think these are just a group of bored people or something. A lot of info from here
      chliZAceh | Zone-H.org


      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Contact your host to see if they can restore a backup. If that was a Wordpress site, I use File Manager in Cpanel to zip up my domain directory. Store the zip file. Then go in and export the database and store it. Something bad happens, just delete all the tables in the database and import the good one, upload the zip file to domain folder and unzip it and you're back in business. Same with an html site, only skip the database step.
      Solved the problem by creating a new WP installation in another folder, then deleted all the index.php, index.htm and all other stuff that I suspect where the hackers files, then copied the index.php from the new WP folder, and it works.

      BUT, I'm not fully convinced that it is fully cleaned, perhaps there might be some stuff that was disturbed in the MySQL databases.

      And I love you're sugesstion sbucciarel. Definitely will do that from now onwards!
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