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Hacking is the violation of server or network security via exploitation of weaknesses in that security.

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Different domain latched on my server [closed]

I created a wordpress site using AWS Lighsail. My server was hosted on public ip (https://52.11.83.83). I also configured AWS Cloudfront CDN on it. Then I saw a domain (hacker: fyiliving.com) which ...
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How to prevent compromising the email server if user credentials leaked?

I've been using AWS SES as an SMTP relay (Postfix + Dovecot) for years and now am facing the pausing of sending emails for the second time. We use this combination as an email server for business ...
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Is there any way to access Hyper-V host from a network adapter not shared with host? [closed]

I am considering to move my firewall inside Hyper-V. There will be only one Guest OS that is connected to the virtual Switch, and the guest OS is the Firewall OS. While the second adapter at the ...
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Network is gone when I start arp spoofing [closed]

So for context I have two virtual machines one is running on kali linux which is the "Hacker's" machine and the other one is running on windows 10 pro which is supposed to be the victim's ...
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Vultr firewall opened ports by anonymous party. nslookup of open IP address shows non-authoritative answer "name = noptr.midphase.com". Was I hacked?

I am running a cloud server on Vultr.com. Recently, I logged into Vultr.com in my web cloud instances web interface and checked my firewall. I noticed that port 53/udp had been opened in the vultr ...
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Weird user creation / Is this some sort of attack?

For a few years now, a bot-like user tries to create 10-12 users a couple of times during a day first and last names like "rlpzieqT WHKLpdGQr" (on a website of mine). The ip address is ...
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VirtualBox network settings for multiple isolated virtual machines where only one can access internet

So I want to make a virtual hacking lab using VirtualBox. There will be two type of machines. Attack Machine : Kali Linux Target Machine : This can be any type of OS; Ubuntu, CentOS etc. I want my ...
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Since S3 charges by request, couldn't a malicious hacker cause a huge AWS bill just by spamming requests?

What would stop them from doing so, against, say, a static website hosted using S3? Is there a good way to deny some requests such that one avoids getting billed for them? (Context: I want to host a ...
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problems with someone trying to get into my server - fail2ban

I know there are many posts on the subject, but I did not find a solution, every time someone tries to enter my server which gives me the following log .. Aug 21 11:37:05 postfix/smtpd[27750]: ...
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How to detect malicious programs on VPS or find remote connections to it [duplicate]

Serveral months ago, my VPS got hacked and used to attack other servers automatically. Knowing nothing about what to do, I just rebooted the server and changed the passwords. However, I continue to ...
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What are all these requests?

I was checking my server's web server log where I'm installing a wordpress website, and found all these requests, the site is new! Should I be worried? Is my site hacked or something? I don't ...
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Hacked website and cannot delete hacked file [duplicate]

First of all, I might be on the total wrong place to post this, but my researches lead to here and I've found "similar" questions being asked here. But still since I lack knowledge in this ...
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Are security updates applied with `dnf update` or is it separate procedure in Linux?

I found this vulnerability with polkit. It was found in Jan 22. How does keeping Linux updated security wise works in general? If I run dnf update on CentOS9 - will it fix it? Or shall I look into ...
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How to track specific logs in Ubuntu? (CPU)

We have this EC2 instance: T2.medium, running apache, with 4 virtual hosts (4 sites). Sometimes, out of nowhere, the CPU reaches very high levels, maybe an attack. I've seen some of our wordpress ...
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SSHD: Difference between "connection closed..." and "disconnected from..." in log file

The sshd service on my Ubuntu server is under constant attack for various IP and user id. According to /var/log/auth.log file, there are three different types of fails from unknown id and IP address: ...
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Introduction problems with some server log file

I have that problem, that my server is flooded with some kind of requests as you see it here: 26/Jan/2022 66.240.205.34 "Gh0st\xad" "-" 26/Jan/2022 139.162.145.250 "GET 400 26/...
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Hacked file regenerates whenever it is deleted - ubuntu/apache2 [duplicate]

Have just had a hacked website flagged by Sucuri There were a number of backdoor PHP files flagged, which I HAVE been able to delete However, the index.php file has a spam link injected in to the ...
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What is this hacker trying to achieve? [duplicate]

I have hundreds of lines like this in my syslog from many different ip addresses: Oct 16 17:03:06 example named[857]: client @0x7fa2dc083e40 104.190.220.183#3075 (sl): query (cache) 'sl/ANY/IN' denied ...
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Malicious requests from private network (Kubernetes)

Recently I'm having many malicious requests to my nginx-ingress pod but I don't understand how's possible they're from a private network. Some examples: 10.114.0.3 - - [11/Oct/2021:09:07:09 +0000] &...
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Who has done what during the course of visiting wordpress site?

I run a small wordpress site. I use Korean. Today my statistics shows like the below. My blog has no more than 100 posts so I am suspicious about the 100+ hits from the same ip. Can this be an ...
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Postfix blank sender from= <>

Recently I received spam report form my vps provider and Trend Micro, I think my vps got suspended because a or some unknow "blank sender" using my mail server as a "jump point", I ...
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My Node.JS program running on an internet-facing server is printing impossible text to the stdout log. Have I been compromised?

(EDIT: Turns out the "strange behavior" is explained by a simple oversight. Keeping this question here in case anyone else overlooks it) I hope I am asking this question right. I have a ...
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Is it possible to hack a server with a SSTP_DUPLEX_POST request?

How is it possible to use the method : SSTP_DUPLEX_POST and the url : /sra_{BA195980-CD49-458b-9E23-C84EE0ADCD75}/ to hack a server ? I have this request in my logs from a well known malicious IP ...
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How to restrict access between folders on the same virtual host

We plan to host WordPress Blog and an Ecommerce store on the same domain, so the URL's will look like this: example.com <--- Magento Store example.com/blog/ <--- WordPress Blog Our main concern ...
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.htaccess file hacked [duplicate]

How can we protect our htaccess file? This code has appeared there several times now: (inserted by hackers) RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (google|yahoo|msn|aol|bing) [OR] RewriteCond %{...
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Trojan:PHP/Obfuse.AR!MSR Detection by Windows Defender [duplicate]

I have an AWS server running Windows 2016 Datacenter. From the past few days, Windows Defender has been reporting Trojan:PHP/Obfuse.AR!MSR pointing to random phpXXXX.tmp files inside C:\Windows\Temp ...
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Block all outgoing ssh traffic

My EC2 instance reported got suspicious activity and I got this email: has been implicated in activity which resembles scanning remote hosts on the internet for security vulnerabilities. Activity of ...
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TCP modification in-the-middle and acknowledge number

For some private purposes I need to enrich HTTP header with additional information (which will be handled by app on the HTTP server side). The basic idea was to modify received packet, send it to ...
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Email smtp credentials keep getting compromised every now and then (laravel 7)

Just as the title says, we have a website that uses third party smtp credentials to send emails, but, we keep getting our smtp credentials hacked and used to send spams emails, which results in our ...
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Are requests with no headers a sign of hacking?

I run a NodeJS web application with packages up to date and secured with a strong password and RSA for ssh. The application runs on two domains. I check the request headers to get the domain and found ...
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Hack attempt Windows Server 2019 [duplicate]

I have a Windows Server 2019 VPS for hosting websites. It has all the latest updates. But somehow there is a (partial) hacking attempt. I first noticed it by the SMS I got for high CPU usage of the ...
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Google redirect failing on symfony website

I am helping a friend with her website mainteinance and there is some strange behaviour that I do not fully understand. When you search for her site on google.com, and click on her main website, the ...
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Should I respond to an "ethical hacker" who's requesting a bounty?

I run a small internet based business from home and make a living at it to feed my family, but I'm still a one man show and internet security is far from my area of expertise. Yesterday I received two ...
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How and where do you report "bad" servers?

I recently setup an nginx that was open to the world in order to serve an API to global users. It's getting a lot of "prodding" (ie: weakness testing/hacking attempts) from an IP address ...
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Guess current date/time on remote server [closed]

I want to know the current date/time of a remote server. I do not have any access on this server. This server expose OpenSSH (port 22) and apache2 (port 80) Is there a fingerprint technique that can ...
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How to prevent Apache2 malware execute

Is there any way to prevent to execute some unwanted malware in Apache2. One of our clients Wordpress website is hacked and there was a files like /wp-content/uploads/2020/05/U27I0x Those files ...
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Unknown IP trying to sign in to my phpmyadmin

I am very worried. I have a little web server hosting a PhpMyAdmin page (in which they are some important databases). Yesterday, I posted a full new webpage on my server (but a very simple HTML and ...
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I see an additional SSHD connection established from an IP that I don't recognise. Should I be worried? (output included)

Here's the output (I've changed my IP to 23.23.23.23) [root@web01 centos]# lsof -i tcp:22 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME sshd 3705 root 3u IPv4 ...
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Server hacked and lots of randomly named .php files in the webspace directories [duplicate]

So apparently my Server kinda got hacked. I don't think that someone got access to the root user or any other user but in every main directory of the www-data user there were a lot of weird files. ...
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How do I know if an abuse report about unsolicited is actually about my server?

I received an Abuse-Message from the operators of dnsbl.de. To me it sounds like it has nothing to do with me, but since it is too serious I don't want to do "guess work" and check whether it really ...
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Is someone trying to hack into my server? [duplicate]

I don't do server stuffs on regular basis, I was just wondering how to check SSH login logs and found that it can be checked using sudo cat /var/log/auth.log and checked on my server and there were ...
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How's hacker used cgi script on Apache2 server to hack and delete database

Today one of my server has been hacked and hacker deleted my app database. And to restore back they are asking to pay money in BTC. Well, I started investigating to Apache2 logs and found many ...
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Server compromised or hacked

I don't understand how this subdomain appeared today: http://hainanbank.com.cn.croppio.com/. I have only added https://croppio.com/ without any sub-domains. I double checked the server configuration ...
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Finding unauthorized user changing files

I manage a client hosting account on [color]host platform. It is a VPS account, running CENTOS 6.10 kvm [server] v84.0.16 OS. There are PHP/MySQL sites, along with WordPress sites. All WordPress ...
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Why do I keep getting fake sign ups on my website?

I have a website and it is starting to get more users. To use the services offered by the site, a person has to sign up. The sign-up requires an email, password, and a five-number string for recapcha. ...
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How do I see the traffic of target device in WiFi Pineapple Portal?

I'm using Windows 10 PC connect via Ethernet cable. I also connect my WiFi pine apple nano into my PC, and configure : Ethernet sharing to share internet connection through : PineApple PineApple, ...
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Is it possible to use a DNS server as a proxy? [closed]

My mobile internet provider cuts my internet service at times before it was due, I contacted them and they did nothing about it I noticed I could still ping hostnames, thus I can connect to the dns ...
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Someone is sending email from my address. How can I prevent this from happening

I received a bunch of Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender messages and found out that someone is sending this email to random addresses: Today we are reaching out to people, brothers ...
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Was this a hacking attempt? (Docker container -> MariaDB)

since i am completely new to web hosting and setting up web servers, please excuse my dumb questions ;) Yesterday i uploaded my web application on digitalocean. The application is a very simple ...
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Server Abuse/Proxy Abuse -- Automated Tunneling (Unique IP's = Hundreds, Thousands of Requests)

I run a simple Proxy/General-Use website me and a few friends use at kerenua.xyz, however, starting 3~ weeks ago, an enormous amount of traffic started flooding in from hundreds of (unique) IP ...
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