WordPress Site Hacked and Running cpuminer + Remediation Steps!

Originally published at: https://managingwp.io/2021/05/27/wordpress-site-hacked-and-running-cpuminer-remediation-steps/

Content Error or Suggest an EditNotice a grammatical error or technical inaccuracy? Let us know; we will give you credit! Investigating the hack I ran into a WordPress site that was running on a VPS and using a large amount of CPU. Let’s open htop and see what’s going on! htop Turns out an account…