{"id":3058,"date":"2019-10-24T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T03:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=3058"},"modified":"2022-10-07T11:28:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T03:28:43","slug":"compromised-websites-recovery","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.mondoze.com\/guide\/kb\/compromised-websites-recovery","title":{"rendered":"Compromised Websites Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3058\" class=\"elementor elementor-3058\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9d08087 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9d08087\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-426be03a\" data-id=\"426be03a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e9bc324 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e9bc324\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Compromised Websites Recovery<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ad8bf45 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ad8bf45\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>The steps to recover your websites.\u00a0<\/p><p>1. Take your site down or put it into maintenance mode immediately.<\/p><p>2. Update the administrator users&#8217; passwords to have at least 8 alphanumeric characters with a mix of capital letters, numbers and symbols.<\/p><p>3. Carefully inspect if any new administrator users have been added to the web application without your knowledge.<\/p><p>4. Upgrade all the installed web applications, such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc, inclusive of its third party themes, plugins, components, etc to the latest version.<\/p><p>5. Repeat the steps above to all the add-on domains and subdomains in the same account.<\/p><p>6. Update control panel account and FTP account passwords to form strong passwords, with each consisting of at least 8 alphanumeric characters coupled with special symbols.<\/p><p>7. Remove files and folders that are no longer in use.<\/p><p>8. Scan your computer using an up-to-date scanning program to identify any malicious code which might have been added by hackers. Be sure to scan all your content, not just text-based files as malicious content can often be embedded in images.<\/p><p>9. Restore clean files, and review the step from No.2 again.<\/p><p>10. Put the website back online.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compromised Websites Recovery The steps to recover your websites.\u00a0 1. Take your site down or put it into maintenance mode immediately. 2. Update the administrator users&#8217; passwords to have at least 8 alphanumeric characters with a mix of capital letters, numbers and symbols. 3. 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