S-07 · Security & Site Remediation
Hacked or infected website recovery for businesses across Southern California. We remove the malware, restore clean files, find and close the vulnerability that let it in, then harden the site with Cloudflare WAF and DNS, SSL, updates, backups, and monitoring so it does not happen twice.
Malware, backdoors, injected spam pages, and redirect scripts removed. Core files replaced from known-good sources, database entries cleaned, and unauthorized administrator accounts revoked. If a clean backup exists, we use it rather than picking at a compromised install.
The part that gets skipped, and the reason sites get reinfected. We identify the entry point, whether that is an out-of-date plugin, an exposed credential, a weak password, or a file permission that should never have been writable, and we close it before calling the job done.
Cloudflare WAF rules, DNS and SSL configuration, rate limiting, bot protection, admin access restrictions, forced updates, least-privilege user review, and secure headers. Most cleanups end with the site better configured and faster than it was before the infection.
Tested backups, uptime and file integrity monitoring, and a patch cadence so the next vulnerability does not sit open for months. An untested backup is not a backup, so we verify that a restore actually works.
In a remediation engagement
Almost no small business site is hacked by someone who chose it. The overwhelming majority of infections come from automated scanners sweeping the internet for a known vulnerability in an out-of-date plugin, theme, or CMS core, or for a password that appeared in a breach list somewhere else. It is rarely personal, which is exactly why routine patching does most of the defensive work.
The damage is not just downtime. Injected spam pages get indexed under your domain, browser and search warnings collapse your click-through, and email sent from a compromised host starts landing in spam folders. Recovery gets faster the sooner it is caught, which is the real argument for monitoring.
Prevention costs a fraction of cleanup. If nothing has gone wrong yet, a hardening pass is the cheaper version of this page, and the one we would rather sell you. It does not come with days of downtime and a blacklist review attached.
This work is strictly defensive: cleanup, recovery, and hardening on sites you own or are authorized to act for. We do not do offensive security work.
Cleanup itself is usually measured in hours to a couple of days, depending on the size of the site and how long the infection sat there. What takes longer is the part people skip: finding how the attacker got in. A site cleaned without closing the entry point gets reinfected, often within days, and the second cleanup costs the same as the first.
Yes. Once the site is genuinely clean, we submit it for review through Google Search Console and, where relevant, the host or blacklist provider. Review times are set by the provider, not by us. Submitting before the site is actually clean is the common mistake, because a failed review makes the next one slower.
Almost never by a targeted attacker. The overwhelming majority of infections come from automated scanning that finds an out-of-date plugin, theme, or CMS core, a weak or reused administrator password, or credentials left in a file that should not have been readable. It is rarely personal, which is precisely why keeping software current does most of the defensive work.
Badly, and quickly. Spam and SEO injections plant pages and links that get indexed under your domain, and a browser or search warning collapses click-through even for the positions you keep. Recovery is faster the sooner it is caught, which is the argument for monitoring rather than for finding out from a customer.
That is the cheaper version of this service, and the one we would rather sell you. A hardening pass covers updates, user and permission review, Cloudflare WAF and DNS configuration, SSL, tested backups, and monitoring. It costs a fraction of an emergency cleanup and it does not come with days of downtime attached.
No. We work on your existing host in most cases. If the host itself is the problem, because it blocks the access needed to secure the site or the account is repeatedly compromised at the server level, we will say so and lay out the options rather than moving you by default.
C/ Contact
Send the domain and what you are seeing. We will tell you what we find and what it takes to clean it, before you commit to anything.
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