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Someone put a backdoor in my website. The AI helped me clean it out.

He opened his site dashboard and found a plugin he never installed. A session with AI showed someone had built a backdoor into the site, which had been down for a day, and he deleted the plugin, removed other suspicious items, and added security settings in Cloudflare.

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How it works

  1. Opens his site dashboard and spots a plugin he did not install
  2. A session with AI shows someone built a backdoor into the site
  3. He deletes the plugin and removes other suspicious items
  4. He adds security settings in Cloudflare

Why it’s worth knowing

He is new to all of this, but a session with AI traced a plugin he never installed to a backdoor someone had built into his site.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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