Website mallware attacks

[maestrosonrisas]

I keep getting attacks to my website every time that are being blocked by OSE firewall

Is there any way to stop this?

I am affraid because they actually manage enter my website on the past, and i dont know if they can enter on the future or if having all the pluggins and wordpress updated. I am safe enough, and i am not sure if there is any type of virus on my computer Macbook as those attacked pages were recently updated from my computer.

Is there any malware scan for Mac

Thanl you

== Attack Details ==

TYPE: Found Basic DoS Attacks
DETECTED ATTACK VALUE: dDos Attack
ACTION: Blocked
LOGTIME: 2013-02-25 11:48:18
FROM IP: http://whois.domaintools.com/75.126.24.81
URI: [http://www.propdental.es/](http://www.propdental.es/)
METHOD: HEAD
USERAGENT: N/A
REFERRER: N/A

---

== Attack Details ==

TYPE: Found Basic DoS Attacks
DETECTED ATTACK VALUE: dDos Attack
ACTION: Blocked
LOGTIME: 2013-02-25 10:13:17
FROM IP: http://whois.domaintools.com/107.21.150.82
URI: [http://www.propdental.es/blanqueamiento-dental/](http://www.propdental.es/blanqueamiento-dental/)
METHOD: HEAD
USERAGENT: N/A
REFERRER: N/A

---

```
== Attack Details ==

TYPE: Found Malicious User Agent
DETECTED ATTACK VALUE: curl/7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
ACTION: Blocked
LOGTIME: 2013-02-25 03:13:52
FROM IP: http://whois.domaintools.com/119.245.226.74
URI: [http://www.propdental.es/sonrisas/los-martinez/](http://www.propdental.es/sonrisas/los-martinez/)
METHOD: HEAD
USERAGENT: curl/7.15.5 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
REFERRER: N/A
```

```

[maestrosonrisas]

I have sucuri pluggin payed suscription. I will reactivated again. My web host is not 6 dolars. But is a shared one of 400 dolars. Actually they are good and thanks to them i could find the files on the server. What i cannot find is where is the gate. And if is there something on my computer or website Because the attacks starts and are directed to new created content pages. And less to old ones

[BlueprintMarketing]

Site checked it ok http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.propdental.com/

[BlueprintMarketing]

Sucuri is not a firewall. As explained before end up there it is a malware removal tool. And it alert you to issues with your site and will tell you when you need to update things to prevent malware attacks. Only disable plug-ins that you do not trust. As long as Plug-in is trusted and is updated and it is especially Sucuri hardening plug-in or one makes it will help your website in this case you really didn't give them a chance to do anything. If you use secure I correctly keep the plug-in on and have a paid subscription with them they will Clean up the mess that the attack causes. However if you do not have a subscription with them all they do is tell you what's wrong with your site that she may go to their website and put a new URL and it will show you what's wrong with your website. I think they're great company and I've worked with a lot of security people and hosts look at fire host and Send them a message asking what you can do about DOS attack protection. They will tell you it's not going to help just unless you actually have a real firewall with that you're on your host Sucuri is not a firewall they don't claim to be a firewall that used in conjunction with a strong web host / firewall you can get a better host or your can get cloudflare's $200 DOS protection package and that will help you in the future. I would Strumness just a better web host. I think anyone posting WordPress on a shared server that is a generic shared server is out of their mind and you're going to keep dealing with problems like this and that's what you get six dollars a month. I don't mean to sound rude at all I'm just telling you I know exactly what it is like to Expect your very inexpensive web host to take care of a huge problem for web hosts. If you truly want protection change house or add a real firewall. I hope that Bienenfeld sincerely, Thomas

[maestrosonrisas]

I have used sucuri on this web www.propdental.com with no good results. They manage to enter the site and upload lots of malware. I just manage to stop them with the OSE firewall.

Thanks for the information. I did not know that i had a problem. I was just afraid.

Can you find out if there also a problem on propdental.com

I had sucuri pluggin instaled, but i disable all pluggins when the attack appened has i didn´t know were they were coming from.

The damage still running on previous site was google indexed lots of my pages on the spam url they they were redirected

[BlueprintMarketing]

Paul,

very well said and very well explained. Your post is the one to blame new DOS attack not to blame because they brought the attack on them but the one that should clean it up

you are their customer. Remember there's a reason why malware is so popular and this is it I know Zippy kid spent a couple hundred grand on their firewall that cannot be said for many other shared hosting companies. Page.ly gives you a very good idea of what is going on every day with to a web host with this link

http://blog.page.ly/2012/12/wordpress-security-an-infographic-on-common-malware-and-attacks/#comment-23076

the nice thing about firehost.com company that page.ly is built on is they are HIPPA certified that means they can keep medical data about patients on their servers. That's a huge deal.

I know I've been hosting on all the managed WordPress host's and they've all done fantastic jobs have never been hacked but that doesn't mean I never could be.

Zippy kid recently was DOS attack and their firewall went up to 85%. They thought they might have to null route the IP addresses being attacked. that would hurt their clients on the IP though having no inbound traffic so they did something unique simply because the control the DynECT DNS changed the IP making four less the 20 people with 3 min down time this was an a enormous attack that I'm talking about.

they did what the best host's do stay prepared for the worst and be ready when it happens. Because it will happen no one never goes down no one is immune to attack you can only make a smart decision to go with web hosting companies that actually take security seriously. Go Daddy at $3.50 a month does not care about your security.

Good job explaining a DOS attack Paul.

[ThompsonPaul]

To add to what Daniel has said...

DoS and DDoS attacks are not malware or viruses trying to infect your website. The are Denial of Service or Distributed Denial of Service attacks, which are essentially attempts to crash your website by flooding it with so many requests for pages that the webserver overloads and crashes, or at least slows down so much that the site becomes unusable.

Sometimes these are maliciously aimed at a particular website to do the business harm, sometimes they are aimed at a host or server in general.

There's not much you can about them except protect against them with smart firewalls as you are doing. It's in your host's best interest to help you with this, as the attack can hurt other users on the server if it's a shared server.

Trying to track the source of the attacks is pretty much pointless because the computers doing the attacking usually belong to unsuspecting users who's machines have been infected with malware that is doing the attacking unbeknownst to them. (That's the kind of infection you want antivurus/antimalware on your own computer for - to make sure your computer hasn't been corrupted to be used as one of the "bots" attacking other people's websites.)

There are a number of additional steps you can take to protect your WordPress install from hacking (a solid, tested, consistent backup strategy is critical), but this issue isn't a hack attempt, as I've stated,. It's an attempt to flood your site with so many worthless visits that it can't keep up. So no amount of customizing WordPress will protect from this kind of attack. It has to be done at the server and network level.

Hope that makes sense?

Paul

[BlueprintMarketing]

I would use sucuri

http://sucuri.net/

They are the beat if you want to not worry about DDOS I would use Page.ly to host my site

ZippyKid.com has a great firewall as well so dose websynthesis.com & WPengine.com

I know FireHost.com is about the best there is and Page.ly uses them

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/www.propdental.es/

You still have a problem

Wordpress internal path: /usr/home/propdental.es/web/wp-content/themes/propdental/index.phpWordpress internal path: /usr/home/propdental.es/web/wp-content/themes/propdental/index.php

[djlaidler]

Hi,

Using WordPress I would recommend WordFence. If the DDOS attack is simply an attempt to overload your server with bogus requests there is not a huge amount that can be done as it act sin a similar manner to gaining a lot of traffic from say a marketing exercise.

But if the DDOS is attempting to hack into your site, there are a number of preventative measures that the plugin does to ensure it is not an easy task.

Firstly ensure all your plugins are up to date along with the WordPress build. Disable any plugins that you are not 100% sure of.

Upon installation of the WordFence plugin, I would highly recommend going to options -> Login Security Options and changing

Lock out after how many login failures & Lock out after how many forgot password attempts TO 5 attempts max

AND

Amount of time a user is locked out TO 2hrs minimum

Also by adding your email at the top of the options you will be alerted when anything occurs on your site (including legitimate logins) so that you can make informed decisions.

Oh, and unless you are actually serving the site up from you Mac OR are concerned that the attacks you have experienced are coming from your machine (with a DDOS, I would find it unlikely), Malware software will not be helpful in this scenario.

Dan

[AgentsofValue]

Hi there,

Try Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition.

This is one of the most reputable malware scanner for Mac.