7 seconds in the life of a hack-bot

Computers are fast, aren’t they?
They perform millions of calculations within seconds.

We take a look at 7 seconds in the life of a hack bot to see why and how quickly your website can be infected with Malware.

0 to 0.70 Seconds: The time it takes to show 204,000,000 results in Google with search term webshops

0.70 to 4.5 seconds: The time it takes for a website to load

4.5 to 5.8 seconds: The time it takes to compare all source code of the website against databases of leaky plugins, WordPress releases, webshop leaks

5.8 to 6.3 seconds: The time it takes to make a targeted injection on the server/website through the leaks found (Advertisement, links, etc.)

6.3 to 6.6 seconds: The time it takes to put a “backdoor” and send a message to the hacker’s log

Hack successful – $time – $URL – $sales

This is 1 script, which mainly waits for the loading time of your website. Meanwhile, the hack bot is running 1000 more processes with the exact same trick on 1000 other websites.

When the script has successfully copied itself, we speak of a virus

Then the whole story starts all over again with the 7 seconds, only through multiple servers.
300,000 injections/hacks in 24 hours via 1 script is therefore not uncommon.

WordPress plugins that stop hacking bots

What a hack bot does in 7 seconds, an antivirus plugin can stop, roll back or prevent just as quickly.
So make sure that your website has good security immediately after launch, haven’t you arranged that yet?
Then install a security plugin now!

You can read more about free and premium security plugins for WordPress here.