serious problem of phishing sites

hozyali

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Its been several weeks now. My cpanel server is continuously having phishing attacks. My server's ssh port is also different.
I have firewall also enabled. I also had a server admin who checked, but he could not find the root cause.

I suspend the users, but the phishing comes on another user next day.

Please help.
 

storminternet

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Generally phishing scams, injections appears when you run outdated cms, applications, weak coded scripts. In order to avoid such issues you should run updated software, plugins, themes, secure cms passwords, ftp passwords etc.

In addition to this if you use modsecurity with updated rules then it should avoid such issues.
 

quizknows

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Generally phishing scams, injections appears when you run outdated cms, applications, weak coded scripts. In order to avoid such issues you should run updated software, plugins, themes, secure cms passwords, ftp passwords etc.

In addition to this if you use modsecurity with updated rules then it should avoid such issues.
All good advice.

Also, are you protected against cross-account symlink attacks? When I see constant phishing on servers that aren't root compromised, it's usually because of a symlink hack used to gain credentials.
 

monarobase

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Install configderver cxs and put any sites offline that have been hacked. Also look for symlinks in all customers folders if you are not using cloudlinux+cagefs. If it's à symlinks attack you will have to change all mysql passwords and implement a solution so symlinks don't allow cross site access.