Hacked Website Repair

A compromise will sometimes go a long time unnoticed!

A lot of the time you will notice your site has been hijacked by seeing an inappropriate holding page or worse, a blank page! You might even see advertisements or spammy code within the page content, but sometimes this can be hidden within the code.

The worst cases we see are sites that are being used to host billing, merchant accounts, and third-party systems. These hacks are severe and need to be removed immediately.

If you’ve spotted a problem with your website and want to find out why and how it’s happened, contact us now. In plain English, we will help you to understand the root cause and how to safeguard your website in future.

In most cases yes!

Most websites can be repaired and restored after a hack. You need to ensure a Security Professional carries out the clean-up to ensure all malware and any suspicious code is removed. Although there are tools out there that claim to do this for you, they are not 100% reliable. Hackers are very good (and getting better) at hiding their code and it’s only with the human naked eye that some code or files can be removed.

The only instance where we cannot repair a website after a hack is if it’s been totally obliterated and deleted off the server. If you don’t have a recent or clean backup then your only option is to rebuild it. This can be done using a number of online caching engines and we can help you with this to restore your website.

If your websites been hacked or notice anything strange going on with your website or email get in touch now and ask for a comprehensive Security Audit.

Solve the issues first and foremost for prevention!

Restoring your website from a recent or clean version backup will get it back online, but it won’t solve the issues which led to the hack. The likelihood of your website getting hacked again without addressing the issues will lead to another compromise. This could be the day after, week after but it will eventually happen again.

You need to find out why your website was hacked and fix the issues to help block any future attack. Monitoring and security updates are essential for keeping your website secure.

Act quickly before your SEO reputation is damaged!

It can and will eventually happen if you don’t do anything about it. Google and other search engines will eventually be alerted that your website has an issue and they can even determine what type of hack it is. Your visitors or customers will not be able to open up your page and they could see a number of ‘safe browsing’ warnings pop up.

The worst case scenario is your search engine ranking placement (SERP) dropping and this will lead to a decrease in traffic and lost revenue.

The key to stopping any SEO damage is to act quickly, ensure your website is whitelisted and put a security strategy in place.

Panicking will not help fix the problem!

As a website owner, whether it be a personal or business website, being hacked can be a big shock. Generally, the most common hacks we see are from sophisticated bots that scan for exploitable areas and will attempt to edit the pages of your current site in order to place spammy links on your site to bad neighbourhoods on the web. The links are sometimes hidden so thorough investigation is needed to identify the root causes. Your website was hacked because it had one or more vulnerabilities which could be from the plug-ins it uses or other module or component installed. It could even be that the website admin was hacked, in which case means (in some instances) an insecure password was being used.

A website needs securing and monitoring on a regular basis to help prevent it from being a target. In today’s digital era no website is safe unless adequate protection is put in place to help protect it.

Whilst your website is displaying inappropriate content, forward linking to other websites or more severe offline, this could potentially be costing you greatly in lost revenue. If you don’t act quickly, it will lead to more destruction by damaging your SEO placement, reputation or worse.

Our knowledge and experience will provide you with a security plan for your website that will leave you feeling like you have total peace of mind.

We highly recommend our monthly security plan!

Once we’ve identified the cause of the hack we will work to fix it and block any future compromise.

Security holes are very common with any website so it’s important to stay up to speed with website security. Our monthly security plans will ensure your website is protected and help deter any hacker from gaining access to your file system.

Let us handle the ongoing maintenance for you, providing complete peace of mind whilst you get on with running your business and website.

Let us identify the weaknesses and fix them for good!

Yes, we can. There is nothing to install and our tests will not disturb your site or visitors. We’ll quickly identify your website security issues and provide a detailed report explaining the vulnerabilities found. We’ll then work with you to fix them and secure your website.

Some of the common things we look for include SQL Injection, XSS (Cross Site Scripting), File Disclosure, Remote File Inclusion, PHP/ASP and BASE64 Code Injections.

With our Security Audit, we’ll inspect and crawl every page of your site, testing every open entry point against every possible security risk.