Hacked sites lose trust, traffic, and revenue
A hacked WordPress site does not just go down — it damages your reputation, gets your domain blacklisted, and can expose your customers' data. We clean infections fast and build the defenses to keep them from coming back.
4 hr
Emergency response time
30 days
Post-cleanup monitoring warranty
$0
Initial infection scan
The real threat
Over 30,000 WordPress sites are hacked every single day. WordPress powers 43% of the web — making it the single biggest target for automated attacks. If your site runs WordPress, it is being probed right now.
Most attacks are not sophisticated. Bots crawl the internet scanning for sites running plugins with known vulnerabilities — and public exploit databases list those vulnerabilities within hours of discovery. An outdated Contact Form 7, a nulled theme, or a password you use on two other sites is all it takes. The attacker does not need to know you exist. Your site is one of millions on a list.
The damage goes beyond your site. Google blacklists your domain, email providers flag messages from your server as spam, and your hosting provider suspends your account. If you collect customer data — names, emails, payment information — you may have a legal obligation to disclose the breach. Every hour the infection sits, it spreads deeper into your files and harder to remove completely.
Warning signs
If any of these sound familiar, your site may already be infected. Do not wait to investigate.
Visitors land on your site and get sent to gambling, pharma, or scam pages. This often only triggers on mobile or for search engine traffic, making it hard to spot from your own desktop.
A red interstitial warning blocks visitors before they reach your site. Google detected malicious content and is actively protecting users from your domain. Traffic drops 60-90% overnight.
Your homepage or key pages show content you did not create — political messages, spam advertisements, or a hacker calling card. Your database or template files have been directly modified.
Your site looks normal when you visit it, but Google shows Japanese or pharmaceutical spam under your domain in search results. Attackers inject hidden pages that only search engine crawlers see.
Your site suddenly takes 10-15 seconds to load. Malware can run cryptocurrency miners, send spam email, or launch attacks on other sites — all consuming your server resources in the background.
You cannot log in to wp-admin. Your password no longer works, your admin email has been changed, or the login page redirects elsewhere. Attackers often create hidden admin accounts and lock out legitimate users.
Your host shut down your site with a vague abuse notice. Hosting providers scan for malware and suspend accounts that are distributing malicious content or sending spam — often with little warning.
Your security plugin is reporting hundreds of file changes, unknown files in wp-content, or modified core files. By the time a plugin detects this, the breach has been active for days or weeks.
What we cover
We handle both sides of security: removing the damage that already happened and building the defenses to prevent it from happening again.
We scan every file and database table to find and remove malicious code, backdoors, and injected scripts. No automated scanner catches everything — we verify manually.
We identify how the attacker got in — outdated plugins, weak passwords, unpatched core files — and close every entry point before cleaning up.
If Google, Norton, or McAfee flagged your site as dangerous, we submit removal requests after cleanup and monitor until the warnings are lifted.
We configure web application firewalls, rate limiting, and login protection to block automated attacks before they reach your site.
Compromised admin accounts are the most common attack vector. We audit every user account, enforce strong passwords, and remove suspicious access.
After cleanup, we set up file integrity monitoring, login alerts, and scheduled scans so you know immediately if something changes.
Our process
Five steps. No shortcuts. Every infection is traced to its source and sealed.
01
We perform a full-spectrum scan of every PHP file, JavaScript file, database table, and server log. We identify every piece of malicious code, every backdoor, and every unauthorized change. We also determine how the attacker got in — the entry point matters as much as the infection itself.
02
Before we touch anything, we take a forensic backup of your infected site. This preserves evidence if you need it for legal or compliance purposes. We then quarantine active threats to stop the bleeding — halting malware distribution, disabling compromised accounts, and blocking active attack paths.
03
We remove malicious code from core files, theme files, plugin files, and database records. We check for hidden backdoors in uploads directories, cron jobs, and .htaccess files. Automated scanners miss 30-40% of injected code — we verify manually, file by file, until the site is clean.
04
Cleaning without hardening guarantees re-infection. We patch the vulnerability that allowed the breach, update all software, enforce strong credentials, configure a web application firewall, restrict file permissions, disable XML-RPC if unused, and set up file integrity monitoring. The goal is to make your site a harder target than every other WordPress site the attacker could hit.
05
We submit blacklist removal requests to Google, Norton, McAfee, and any other services that flagged your domain. We run a final scan to confirm the site is clean. Then we monitor your site daily for 30 days to catch any re-infection attempts. You receive a full report documenting what happened, what was fixed, and what defenses are now in place.
Transparency
We believe in being upfront about scope. Here is where the boundaries are.
If your site is so badly compromised that core data is corrupted beyond recovery, a cleanup may not be enough. We will tell you honestly if a rebuild is the better path — and scope that as a separate project. We never charge for cleanup work that cannot actually fix the problem.
Our cleanup includes 30 days of post-cleanup monitoring. After that, ongoing security monitoring, daily scans, and proactive threat response are covered under our care plans. We will recommend the right tier based on your risk profile.
If the attacker deleted content and no backup exists — not on your host, not locally, not in a staging environment — we cannot recreate what was never saved. We will recover everything that is technically recoverable, but we are transparent about what is gone.
If you handle customer data (especially payment or health data), a breach may trigger legal notification requirements under GDPR, PIPEDA, or PCI-DSS. We document the technical details of the breach for your records, but legal compliance advice is outside our scope. We will point you to the right resources.
Security questions
Do not wait. Infections spread to more files the longer they sit. Reach out now and we will assess the situation within hours.