It was always recommended by WordPress and website security experts to change the pre-fix of WordPress database names to something other than the default “wp” you’ll find in most WP installations. This is another security measure which can hide database files from bots that automatically look for “wp_filenames.” Recently, automatic installations of WordPress on web…
Plug-ins are one of the major culprits of self-hosted WordPress websites getting hacked. Older, less secure code used in plug-ins can be exploited to inject malware and other types of code that can exploit your website, server, and even database. In fact, there was recently a WordPress plug-in that was banned from WordPress.org for crypto-mining, a…
You may have heard of Bitcoin and Litecoin, just two of the cryptocurrencies we find being used all over the world as an alternative to traditional coin, metals, and paper currency. But what you may not have heard is that WordPress websites are being hacked to be used a mining machines. How does it work?…