{"id":33748,"date":"2020-10-01T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/?p=33748"},"modified":"2020-10-06T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T10:02:02","slug":"hackers-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2020\/10\/01\/hackers-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers at it again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So it seems like somewhere along the way the hackers managed to modify some files in HTML root once again. This wasn&#8217;t just me. A similar hack was used to take over thousands of WordPress sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had to restore from backup again then set up some scripts to watch and report for unexpected changes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out they had access to the WordPress database as well, and that backdoor was saved in the backup I restored from.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a simple manual cleanup and some plugin updates and removal, I believe the site is backdoor free and pretty well protected. I&#8217;m now looking forward to further hack attempts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will probably do a small write up on the methods they used and things that can be done to prevent it. Maybe it ends up helping someone with a similar problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it seems like somewhere along the way the hackers managed to modify some files in HTML root once again. This wasn&#8217;t just me. A similar hack was used to take over thousands of WordPress sites. I had to restore from backup again then set up some scripts to watch and report for unexpected changes. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/2020\/10\/01\/hackers-at-it-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hackers at it again!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33749,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33748\/revisions\/33749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcbjunkie.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}