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    Sites hacked!

    Few of my sites are hacked.. Host say they passed some gif file which had scripts..

    I dont know when my host say they are proactive it also part of intruders isnt it? Not sure though.

    Can you suggest me what all should be my actions? Few are joomla sites.

    Kindly assist,

    Thanks,
    Puneetha

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    Do you have a back up copy of your sites that were compromised?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneZSolutions View Post
    Do you have a back up copy of your sites that were compromised?
    Yes.. i have asked them to restore for now. But not sure.. if the attack could be made again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NETIDER View Post
    Yes.. i have asked them to restore for now. But not sure.. if the attack could be made again?
    Are you running on the latest versions of joomla or other software?

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    Re: Sites hacked!

    What version of joomla are you using?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NEQ3 - Sam View Post
    Are you running on the latest versions of joomla or other software?
    My Client doesnt update the joomla.. My host told me that there are symbolic links etc on the server. I wonder how the admin user also gets changed!

    I have asked them to update to latest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CW Mike View Post
    What version of joomla are you using?
    Initially Joomla 2.5.1 which got hacked.. and later few J3.x sites also showing as hacked today.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NETIDER View Post
    My Client doesnt update the joomla.. My host told me that there are symbolic links etc on the server. I wonder how the admin user also gets changed!

    I have asked them to update to latest.
    Ah this is where cloudlinux would of helped. Restore the backups and update to 2.5.16 (latest version) might patch the exploits.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CW Mike View Post
    Restore the backups and update to 2.5.16 (latest version) might patch the exploits.
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    At least you have backups which will help you for now to at least bring all of your sites back up to function, but I have learned to make sure as well to always have everything up to date when it comes to situations like this because that's when hacks happen.
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    Before upgrading, you may consider cleaning all un-wanted old files.
    Delete all old Joomla files and upload fresh files.
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    Agreed with above. Make sure you delete all unwanted files. Also you can try a plugin to increase security. jHackGuard is one I have heard of if you want to try.
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    Re: Sites hacked!

    What you expect from joomla? Forget joomla. Go for WordPress.

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    One more thing that can make your website more vulnerable is the plug-ins you have installed.

    Keep your Joomla system updated, and check your plugins list (if there is anything there which you didn't intend to install, remove it).

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    Quote Originally Posted by bear View Post
    http://www.joomla.org/download.html
    Joomla 3.2 is the newest version
    But 2.5.16 is the latest stable version for 1.x and 2.x versions released just a few weeks ago
    http://www.joomla.org/announcements/...-released.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by HostFill View Post
    What you expect from joomla? Forget joomla. Go for WordPress.
    That is a bad advice. Both Joomla and WordPress are vulnerable if they are outdated or they have plugins or templates with backdoors. It is not matter of the software used but of the maintenance and security measures taken.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr_Michael View Post
    That is a bad advice. Both Joomla and WordPress are vulnerable if they are outdated or they have plugins or templates with backdoors. It is not matter of the software used but of the maintenance and security measures taken.
    Thank you.

    Does this mean if we have Static HTML sites the hacking not possible? Its really strange for me (ofcourse i am still learning to tackle), how the world hackers:

    1. send the files
    2. modify the database users / contents

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    While it would be 99% more secure, nothing is 100% safe (for me only Universal physic laws and Death are )
    One example: http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com...-our-turn.html
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    Your site can be attacked from another source, a vulnerable web-server or control panel, services that require credentials (ssh, ftp), even your domain provider or a network infrastructure issue... so even if you have a static website there's a risk...

    There are many methods to attack a site, for the ones you ask, I'd say they are related to XSS and SQL injection... here you can see a list of the most common methods and the explanation for one of them: http://www.acunetix.com/websitesecur...ite-scripting/

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    look like that attackers attacked your joomla sites through symlink. in that case, you should take following security measures:

    1- Ask you hosting company to install apache symlink protection.
    2- change joomla configuration file permissions to 400.
    3- change htaccess file permission to to 404.
    4- remove all vulnerable and nulled plugins.
    5- use latest version of joomla

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    Quote Originally Posted by vtechpk View Post
    look like that attackers attacked your joomla sites through symlink. in that case, you should take following security measures:

    1- Ask you hosting company to install apache symlink protection.
    2- change joomla configuration file permissions to 400.
    3- change htaccess file permission to to 404.
    4- remove all vulnerable and nulled plugins.
    5- use latest version of joomla
    Thank you!

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    Vtechph offers good information. Something that will also help you out is go into your global configuration settings and make sure restrict uploads is checked. Make sure you restrict gif, php , files from being uploaded. As a matter of fact just leave your common images like jpg,png and such only allowed to be uploaded.

    Most of what you will see with Joomla is .gif and files like image.php will be uploaded to the images folder and the other folders under images.
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