How is the website hacked? Why hackers want to hack websites?

How is the website hacked? Why hackers want to hack websites?

Today a website plays a very important role in every field. Those who make or blogging websites in a professional way, regardless of whether you are in any profession, having a website is very important today. Where such websites are increasing on a regular basis, the demand for security has also increased. The number of news such as "hacker hacked such website" in the news or online, but the fire. Many people make websites but often show negligence in security cases, it is important to keep in mind that hackers can hack your site for various reasons, not only your loss, but your site visitors can also be targeted.

Moreover, keeping the website faulty can be very detrimental to your business and traffic. Now you may be thinking, "I have a general blog where there is no user details, such as credit card numbers, bank accounts, customer details, so why would a hacker want to hack my site?" - Okay, you have a lot of arguments. , But looking a bit differently, hackers can execute all kinds of bad and horrible acts without stealing information after hacking your website. In fact most of the time the hacker does not hack the target of a specific website, the hacker has no dealings with any site or site. So why would a hacker want to hack your website? This post discusses this topic in detail, and outlines some of the possible causes.

How is the website hacked?

Frankly, most websites are hacked by intrepid hackers (meaning those who are learning new hacking, not yet proficient) or script kiddies (who have no special knowledge on programming or hacking, trying to hack others' code). Many hackers just hack websites to increase their efficiency. The hacker here is referring to black hat or immoral hacker. There are many website security scanners, which scan the website randomly and help you find a security issue. Many times hackers manually check the web site and find out if there are any security issues.

Many times your site is open to hackers because of your own mistakes. You may have indexed a link to Google that is not indexed at all. Suppose you have a secure and hidden login page link on your site, where you log in to the site. Now suppose that page is indexed in Google search results, which means that hackers will get a login page of your site if you search Google with a little trick and you can attack to gain access there. In professional hacking websites, hackers must gain knowledge about the site and collect data. What theme did you use on the site, what site did you build the site with, what plugins were you using, and so on. Now maybe there is no problem with your site or your own code. But the theme you are using or the plugin may be faulty,

The hacker gathers all the investigated data of your site and checks the version of each of your software, plugins, themes etc. Trying to find the error in them, if you use an old version of the theme or plugin, the hacker tries to google and find out what the error was, whether it can be hacked or not, so he prepares to hack the site. However, when it comes to hacking a targeted website, it takes a lot of time, as I said before, the hacker has to study the site. Many times the site is hacked using Just Social Engineering without any coding and hacking.

All the websites in the world are basically hacked on two things. First, the login error. This means that you may have used a common type user name or password to login, which can be easily cracked by attaching a brute force. If you use "admin" or "root" as the username, tell me how long it takes to get hacked? Secondly the website is hacked for software problem, which I have discussed above. All the applications or plugins of the website, such as computer operating system, have to be updated regularly, they have to apply security patches. Remember that you have used WordPress software to build your website. Now not only do WordPress updates or patches, as well as the themes, plugins used in the site, everything has to be updated. And you need to do basic security practices.

Why hackers hack websites?

Hacking a website or hacking a website is a lot more common, and newspapers are a living witness to that. Hacks can be random, hacks can be behind you in business, hacks can be stolen from your customer details. Large sites are basically hacked to bring down the business or attack the deeds and put the site down, so that visitors won't have access to the site. But why hackers hack your small and ordinary web blog? Let's find out some of the reasons below!

Defacement.

This type of hacking is most commonly seen in hacking websites. Hackers hack a website and hang pictures of their organization or organization on the home page. Their main purpose is to spread the name of the hacking group in particular. They want to show that there is a hacking group by that name. One of the biggest benefits of this type of hacking is the free advertising of anything you own. Suppose a site gets 20 thousand page views a day, then if every link on that site shows a hacker fitted page, think of how many free ads were shown.

Power the computer.

Many hackers do not hack your site for your website, they do not actually have any transaction on the site, they just hack your site to use your website server or server computer power. Once you have your server's computing power, two birds in one pile. It got a free computer and secondly the computer does not even need to pay the electric bill. Since the web server is just like any other computer, it is possible to perform any task on it. However, hackers especially use computer power for digital currency mining. For example, Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency mining.

Phishing pages.

Your site may not have any user data, but a hacker may hack your site and hang a fake page. That facebook can be like Facebook or the exact version of the Google login page. Most of the time, the user goes to the page looking like a fool, and the original site thinks to enter his user name and password. At the same time the login name and password or any entered information such as credit card details goes to hackers. This way hackers can hack your website and steal thousands or millions of user details.

SEO

You can call this type of attack an SEO attack. Specifically, a hacker from a search engine will hack your site to rank on its own website, hack it and create spam pages that can contain numerous backlinks, which will facilitate the hacker. SEO means search engine optimization. Generally Google or search engine sites give the highest priority to those sites with the most links to other sites. So the hacker continues to hack such sites one by one, and places their own site links on those sites and takes backlinks. To understand SEO, “You have to watch the entire video on SEO on my YouTube channel

Spamming.

Many times, various websites are randomly hacked to send spam mail. Then thousands or millions of mails are sent from the site at one time, many times the site owner does not understand anything, but at this point the hacker continues his work. Since your site server is a computer, it is possible to do whatever you want with the power of computing. Hacker Free sends millions of fax mails to different addresses, making it impossible to trace that mail, since the mail is coming from your hacker computer and not from your web server. Hackers can earn a lot of money by spamming email, but web server companies have to spend a lot of money, their IP addresses are blacklisted, it takes money to fix them. And I've discussed above about spamming a backlink for SEO.

Malware spread.

The hacker hacked the website and injected malicious code or malicious software. Then when a visitor visits that site and if there is an error on his PC, the malware enters the visitor's computer. This time, those malware will allow hackers to earn money in a brutal way, for example: a hacker can use the infected PC as a botnet, steal all the data from that computer, encrypt all the files on the computer, and charge money to retrieve the files. Can make the claim, just as it does with runesware.

But don't worry, hacker has no interest in my website. My website is small here so no visitor and no dog from this post so far you have realized how useful hacker has been to hack your website.

If you have a website of your own, of course, take special security care, Next Article I will publish a detailed guide line on website security. However, the best way is to keep regular backups of your site, so that you can return to the previous version without any problems, at least so your hard work is not lost. Creating and running a website takes a lot of work, of course you will not want to spend all your time for a hacker. Hopefully the article was very instructive and important for you. You can comment below on any of your questions.