WordPress sites infected with Cryptominer

It is common knowledge that you need to keep your WordPress website up to date and secure if you want to ensure the safety of your visitors and yourself. Once in a while there is another WordPress misuse in the news. In early March, a number of WordPress websites were hit by cryptominers. These are pieces of code that ensure that the end user's computer is used to mine or calculate crypto currency. There is a lot of money to be made with this.

Miners

The miners are put in place by using a backdoor in obsolete plug-ins and themes. Here, invisible to the owner, a piece of javascript is executed in the browser. The only thing you notice is that your computer suddenly starts using more power or that your processes go up in the task manager. If you are making an income from your WordPress website hosting or representing your company on the internet then this is of course not done. It is therefore important that you take the necessary steps to maintain the security of your WordPress hosting.

Maintaining WordPress

If you work with WordPress then you should also be familiar with what to watch out for. Always make sure that you keep an eye on your website with updates and keep up with the latest news as far as possible. A good source for this is the news section of WordPress itself where you can read all about the latest developments. But various news sites about security often cover this as well. This makes it easy to make sure your hosting is in order.

We recommend making sure your WordPress website has as few plugins and other third-party extensions as possible. This ensures that you have a tight grip on what might be going on. In addition, this benefits the speed of your website hosting. And a fast website also improves your ranking in search engines.

WordPress can be easily maintained, in our knowledge base under the WordPress you will see everything you need to take care of this. If you have any questions you can always contact us via the online chat.