Cozumx Hackers
Okay, a site that I was developing for a not for profit organization has just been hacked! The name of these hackers is cozumx, does anyone know of this? Anyway to get my old site back?
I’m at a loss here. The site was built on Joomla (1.5.6). Something let these people through!
Sorry if this post is disjointed, but I’m kinda freaking out.
Check out what you get if you Google Cozumx. I’m not the only person that has had a site hacked by these guys.
If anyone can help, please leave it in the comments.
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September 20th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Restore to the site’s latest backup. If that’s not recent, contact the web host and get them to help you restore. Once that happens, upgrade to the Joomla 1.5.7 security update immediately.
Joomla and Wordpress and similar open source CMSs are great, but you absolutely have to stay on top of security updates - even a week past the update is way too long. If they’re patching something, the exploit is no longer a secret, and people like this guy/girl love to take advantage of that sort of thing. It’s just the price you have to pay for “free”.
September 21st, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Thanks Gretchen.
I was able to get into the mysql tables and change the password for the admin account back into something I could use and backed up the site and rolled it out again after deleting the old install, creating a new database, and doing a clean Joomla 1.5.7 install.
You’re right about the price to pay for free…