Now you’re thinking, I’m not falling for that!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But another might, someone who gets such a notification when they visit your website well known and trusted, they might fall for it. (It’s mostly the elderly who get fooled.)<\/p>\n
Of course, you don’t want to be part of that, you don’t want that virus notification from a fake company displayed on your website. It comes at the expense of your good reputation, even if someone doesn’t fall for it … they’ll see it when they visit your website!<\/p>\n
The SEO spam and the fake tech notification are both highly undesirable hacks that you want to PREVENT. (And not to take out afterwards only when you finally discover the false information).<\/p>\n
3 Credit card data theft<\/h2>\n
Sucuri has removed 2300+ scripts from servers & websites last year that used to steal and forward credit card data.<\/p>\n
It just might be your credit card information! As ingenious as a WooCommerce webshop can work, hackers are just as ingenious when they steal credit card information.
\nDon’t underestimate that if you have a WooCommerce webshop.<\/p>\n
4 Cryptomining<\/h2>\n
There is a large decrease in the number of scripts that prompted the visitor’s computer to mine crypto coins.<\/p>\n
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1 reason is the change in exchange rates, the drop in value and the antivirus software of computers that dealt with this threat very seriously. Cryptomining in fact led to increased CPU usage and in this way led to additional (power) costs for the website visitor.<\/p>\n
Brief summary:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe above methods are only 4 out of hundreds. These are the most commonly used, but that doesn’t mean you won’t encounter other tricks.
\nIn particular, fishing and reselling account information often runs parallel to these tricks.<\/p>\n
Keep your WordPress website up-to-date, secure and if you don’t have a site but have encountered these tricks: be aware that even the most trustworthy website can be hacked and thus provide false information. Make sure you have a good Antivirus for your computer, that will prevent many of the trojans trying to install themselves on your computer.<\/p>\n
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