{"id":21803,"date":"2018-07-16T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hetzner.co.za\/help-centre\/uncategorized\/why-a-hacker-wants-your-website\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T10:34:51","slug":"why-would-my-site-be-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/why-would-my-site-be-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a hacker wants your website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Source<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/ask-wordfence-why-is-an-insignificant-site-like-mine-being-attacked\/?utm_source=list&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=031418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ask Wordfence: Why Is an Insignificant Site Like Mine Being Attacked?<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a high level, an attacker views a vulnerable website as a juicy <strong>collection of resources that they can steal or exploit:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s backed by a <strong>server<\/strong> that they can use to run their own programs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s connected to the <strong>internet<\/strong> and likely has a squeaky-clean <strong>reputation<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It might include interesting user <strong>data<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It probably has <strong>traffic<\/strong> coming to it<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is likely <strong>important<\/strong> to you<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the time, they use those resources to make money. And they continue to find new creative ways to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using Your Server to Run Their Own Programs<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re running a WordPress site, your web server is most likely a fully functioning Linux server with MySQL and PHP installed. Depending on your hosting situation, it may also have a meaningful amount of processing power. (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All true for our servers. Note: MariaDB on our servers is equivalent to MySQL)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<h3><b>Cryptocurrency Mining<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since late 2017, there have been massive crypto mining campaigns, particularly targeting WordPress sites. In the most intense period of attacks ever recorded, attackers were compromising sites and using them to both attack other WordPress sites and to mine for specific cryptocurrencies that can be mined efficiently using web server hardware. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This method uses <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/brute-force-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">brute force attacks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to hack huge numbers of innocent websites and use their combined processing power for crypto mining.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/massive-cryptomining-campaign-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read this article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for a detailed technical case scenario.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leveraging Your Reputation<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/reputation-makes-you-a-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your site reputation makes you a target<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All site owners are targets, even if you don\u2019t collect credit cards, or capture and store user data and even if you just have a plain old static website. The reason is that your website has a <\/span><b>clean reputation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Your site doesn\u2019t need to be popular or well-trafficked, it just has to be \u2018clean\u2019 for a hacker to be able to use it. If your site is not blacklisted by Google\u2019s Safe Browsing list or any other blacklist, then you are \u2018clean\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Hosting Phishing Pages<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A phishing page is one that attempts to fool you into sharing sensitive information, like your password or credit card number. An example of a phishing page is a fake login page that gives you the impression you are on a legitimate login screen. You enter your credentials and the attacker logs them and can now sign into your real account and steal data or money (on banking sites).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>So why hack your website? <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your site probably has a squeaky clean reputation. When attackers hack your site and then use it to host phishing pages on your site, services like Google Safe Browsing that would normally warn users about suspicious websites won\u2019t know to alert visitors to the danger of the phishing page hosted on your site.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Hosting Spam Pages and Injecting Spammy Links<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your site is legitimate, so search engines like Google assume that your content, including outbound links, is also legitimate. Attackers love to plant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/what-is-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SEO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spam in the form of pages and links on your site, boosting SEO rankings for their malicious businesses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A great example of this is the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/wordpress-supply-chain-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supply chain <\/a>attack discovered<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in September 2017 that spanned 4.5 years and impacted 9 WordPress plugins. In Wordfence\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/coordinated-plugin-spam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blog post about this SEO spam campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we exposed how someone purchased the plugins and then used them to embed spammy links in the sites that were running them. The attacker used these links to improve search engine rankings for websites offering payday loans, escort services, and other shady things.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s important to remember that while <\/span><b>your site alone isn\u2019t capable of boosting an attacker\u2019s SEO results, thousands of compromised sites can<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Sending Spam Email<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting spam email past spam filters is a difficult endeavor. Email clients and hosting companies such as xneelo use myriad techniques to identify and block spam. Almost all spam filters rely on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/products-and-services\/ip-address\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IP<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> blacklists to block everything from IPs known to send spam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s where your web server comes in. Not only does your server have all of the hardware and software spammers need, but the reputation of your IP is likely perfect. By hacking your website or email address and using to send spam from your web server, cybercriminals have a much better chance of getting their spam delivered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eventually, spam filters pick up on what is happening and blacklist your IP as well, so the attacker simply moves on to the next victim, leaving the reputation of your IP address in ruins.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Attacking Other Sites<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes attackers will compromise WordPress sites to attack additional sites. We saw hackers use this approach in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/massive-cryptomining-campaign-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the cryptocurrency mining attack we discussed earlier in this article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where an attacker was controlling a botnet made up of thousands of other people\u2019s WordPress sites that were simultaneously mining for cryptocurrency and attacking other websites. Your website is an attractive attack platform because your IP address is likely not on any blacklists.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Hosting Malicious Content<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hackers will sometimes use your web server to host malicious files that they can call from other servers. They are essentially using your hosting account as a file server.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leveraging Your Site Traffic<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Malicious Redirects<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One very common thing attackers do with hacked websites is add redirects to their content. Visitors to your site don\u2019t even have to click on a hyperlink to visit the spam site: the redirect will just take them there directly. In some cases, attackers will go so far as to redirect <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">all of your traffic<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to malicious sites. But in most cases, they employ measures to avoid detection, only redirecting traffic to specific URLs or for specific browsers or device types.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, malicious JavaScript code may be injected into websites, which then redirects visitors to pages that host spam and malicious browser plugins.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Defacements<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In some cases, the attacker just wants to get their message out. By taking over your website, they are able to reach your website visitors, at least until you figure out what they\u2019ve done. Attacks of this nature often represent a political movement or are just looking for \u201cstreet cred\u201d in the hacker community.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Distributing Malware<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One especially nefarious way attackers monetize hacked websites is to use them to spread malware. They install website malware that installs malware on your visitors\u2019 computers or devices when they visit your site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a site owner, this is especially scary, as not only do you risk having your site flagged as malicious by search engines and other blacklists, but your visitors are not going to be happy with you. Your reputation, both online and with your site visitors, could be damaged for a long time. In addition, a hacked website can have a long-term negative impact on your search engine rankings.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stealing Data<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if you don\u2019t accept credit cards on your site, an attacker may still find valuable data to steal. For example, if you capture other data via forms on your site, there might be something there worth taking. Additionally, attackers can use a stolen username and password pairs to try to log in to other sites.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ransomware<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ransomware is malicious software that an attacker installs on your computer or on your server. They use an exploit to gain access to your system, and then the ransomware executes, usually automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ransomware encrypts all your files using strong unbreakable encryption. The attackers then ask you to pay them to decrypt your files. Usually, payment is via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bitcoin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Bitcoin gives the attackers a way to create an anonymous wallet into which the ransom can be paid.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to secure your website<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of the size of your website audience or the cost of your hosting plan, criminals will happily find a way to monetize it if they can break in. Luckily, you don\u2019t need to be a security expert to keep your site safe. <\/span><b>Use products such as <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/cloudbric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Cloudbric WAF<\/b><\/a><b> and security plugins such <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Wordfence<\/b><\/a><b> (for WordPress sites) to protect your website.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"<b><i>Source<\/i><\/b><i><span >: <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/ask-wordfence-why-is-an-insignificant-site-like-mine-being-attacked\/?utm_source=list&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=031418\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span >Ask Wordfence: Why Is an Insignificant Site Like Mine Being Attacked?<\/span><\/i><\/a>\r\n\r\n<span >At a high level, an attacker views a vulnerable website as a juicy <strong>collection of resources that they can steal or exploit:<\/strong><\/span>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li ><span >It\u2019s backed by a <strong>server<\/strong> that they can use to run their own programs<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li ><span >It\u2019s connected to the <strong>internet<\/strong> and likely has a squeaky-clean <strong>reputation<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li ><span >It might include interesting user <strong>data<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li ><span >It probably has <strong>traffic<\/strong> coming to it<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li ><span >It is likely <strong>important<\/strong> to you<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<span >Most of the time, they use those resources to make money. And they continue to find new creative ways to do so.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span >Using Your Server to Run Their Own Programs<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span >If you\u2019re running a WordPress site, your web server is most likely a fully functioning Linux server with MySQL and PHP installed. Depending on your hosting situation, it may also have a meaningful amount of processing power. (<\/span><i><span >All true for our servers. Note: MariaDB on our servers is equivalent to MySQL)<\/span><\/i>\r\n<h3><b>Cryptocurrency Mining<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >Since late 2017, there have been massive crypto mining campaigns, particularly targeting WordPress sites. In the most intense period of attacks ever recorded, attackers were compromising sites and using them to both attack other WordPress sites and to mine for specific cryptocurrencies that can be mined efficiently using web server hardware. <\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >This method uses <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/brute-force-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >brute force attacks<\/span><\/a><span > to hack huge numbers of innocent websites and use their combined processing power for crypto mining.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/massive-cryptomining-campaign-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >Read this article<\/span><\/a><span > for a detailed technical case scenario.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span >Leveraging Your Reputation<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/reputation-makes-you-a-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >Your site reputation makes you a target<\/span><\/a><span >. <\/span><span >All site owners are targets, even if you don\u2019t collect credit cards, or capture and store user data and even if you just have a plain old static website. The reason is that your website has a <\/span><b>clean reputation<\/b><span >. Your site doesn\u2019t need to be popular or well-trafficked, it just has to be \u2018clean\u2019 for a hacker to be able to use it. If your site is not blacklisted by Google\u2019s Safe Browsing list or any other blacklist, then you are \u2018clean\u2019.<\/span>\r\n<h3><b>Hosting Phishing Pages<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >A phishing page is one that attempts to fool you into sharing sensitive information, like your password or credit card number. An example of a phishing page is a fake login page that gives you the impression you are on a legitimate login screen. You enter your credentials and the attacker logs them and can now sign into your real account and steal data or money (on banking sites).<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>So why hack your website? <\/b><span >Your site probably has a squeaky clean reputation. When attackers hack your site and then use it to host phishing pages on your site, services like Google Safe Browsing that would normally warn users about suspicious websites won\u2019t know to alert visitors to the danger of the phishing page hosted on your site.<\/span>\r\n<h3><b>Hosting Spam Pages and Injecting Spammy Links<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >Your site is legitimate, so search engines like Google assume that your content, including outbound links, is also legitimate. Attackers love to plant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/what-is-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >SEO<\/span><\/a><span > spam in the form of pages and links on your site, boosting SEO rankings for their malicious businesses.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >A great example of this is the <\/span><span ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/wordpress-supply-chain-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supply chain <\/a>attack discovered<\/span><span >\u00a0in September 2017 that spanned 4.5 years and impacted 9 WordPress plugins. In Wordfence\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/coordinated-plugin-spam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >blog post about this SEO spam campaign<\/span><\/a><span >, we exposed how someone purchased the plugins and then used them to embed spammy links in the sites that were running them. The attacker used these links to improve search engine rankings for websites offering payday loans, escort services, and other shady things.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >It\u2019s important to remember that while <\/span><b>your site alone isn\u2019t capable of boosting an attacker\u2019s SEO results, thousands of compromised sites can<\/b><span >.<\/span>\r\n<h3><b>Sending Spam Email<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >Getting spam email past spam filters is a difficult endeavor. Email clients and hosting companies such as xneelo use myriad techniques to identify and block spam. Almost all spam filters rely on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/products-and-services\/ip-address\/\"><span >IP<\/span><\/a><span > blacklists to block everything from IPs known to send spam.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >That\u2019s where your web server comes in. Not only does your server have all of the hardware and software spammers need, but the reputation of your IP is likely perfect. By hacking your website or email address and using to send spam from your web server, cybercriminals have a much better chance of getting their spam delivered.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >Eventually, spam filters pick up on what is happening and blacklist your IP as well, so the attacker simply moves on to the next victim, leaving the reputation of your IP address in ruins.<\/span>\r\n<h3><b>Attacking Other Sites<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >Sometimes attackers will compromise WordPress sites to attack additional sites. We saw hackers use this approach in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/massive-cryptomining-campaign-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >the cryptocurrency mining attack we discussed earlier in this article<\/span><\/a><span >, where an attacker was controlling a botnet made up of thousands of other people\u2019s WordPress sites that were simultaneously mining for cryptocurrency and attacking other websites. Your website is an attractive attack platform because your IP address is likely not on any blacklists.<\/span>\r\n<h3><b>Hosting Malicious Content<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >Hackers will sometimes use your web server to host malicious files that they can call from other servers. They are essentially using your hosting account as a file server.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span >Leveraging Your Site Traffic<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<h3><b>Malicious Redirects<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >One very common thing attackers do with hacked websites is add redirects to their content. Visitors to your site don\u2019t even have to click on a hyperlink to visit the spam site: the redirect will just take them there directly. In some cases, attackers will go so far as to redirect <\/span><i><span >all of your traffic<\/span><\/i><span > to malicious sites. But in most cases, they employ measures to avoid detection, only redirecting traffic to specific URLs or for specific browsers or device types.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >For example, malicious JavaScript code may be injected into websites, which then redirects visitors to pages that host spam and malicious browser plugins.<\/span>\r\n<h3><b>Defacements<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >In some cases, the attacker just wants to get their message out. By taking over your website, they are able to reach your website visitors, at least until you figure out what they\u2019ve done. Attacks of this nature often represent a political movement or are just looking for \u201cstreet cred\u201d in the hacker community.<\/span>\r\n<h3><b>Distributing Malware<\/b><\/h3>\r\n<span >One especially nefarious way attackers monetize hacked websites is to use them to spread malware. They install website malware that installs malware on your visitors\u2019 computers or devices when they visit your site.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >As a site owner, this is especially scary, as not only do you risk having your site flagged as malicious by search engines and other blacklists, but your visitors are not going to be happy with you. Your reputation, both online and with your site visitors, could be damaged for a long time. In addition, a hacked website can have a long-term negative impact on your search engine rankings.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span >Stealing Data<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span >Even if you don\u2019t accept credit cards on your site, an attacker may still find valuable data to steal. For example, if you capture other data via forms on your site, there might be something there worth taking. Additionally, attackers can use a stolen username and password pairs to try to log in to other sites.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span >Ransomware<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span >Ransomware is malicious software that an attacker installs on your computer or on your server. They use an exploit to gain access to your system, and then the ransomware executes, usually automatically.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span >Ransomware encrypts all your files using strong unbreakable encryption. The attackers then ask you to pay them to decrypt your files. Usually, payment is via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span >bitcoin<\/span><\/a><span >. Bitcoin gives the attackers a way to create an anonymous wallet into which the ransom can be paid.<\/span>\r\n<h2><span >How to secure your website<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<span >Regardless of the size of your website audience or the cost of your hosting plan, criminals will happily find a way to monetize it if they can break in. Luckily, you don\u2019t need to be a security expert to keep your site safe. <\/span><b>Use products such as <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/cloudbric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Cloudbric WAF<\/b><\/a><b> and security plugins such <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Wordfence<\/b><\/a><b> (for Wordpress sites) to protect your website.<\/b>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are small or insignificant websites attacked? 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