CMS forensics and cleanup

Website cleanup for hacked CMS sites and strange redirects

Cyber Duct Tape cleans up compromised websites, identifies likely entry points, and helps prevent the same infection or failure from returning.

Signs your site may be compromised

CMS infections often show up as redirects, spam pages, unknown admin users, modified templates, injected scripts, disabled security tools, or warnings in Google and browsers. The patterns are similar whether the site runs WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Craft CMS, Magento, or another mainstream platform.

  • Malware and injected-file review
  • Core, plugin, extension, and theme integrity checks
  • Unknown user, cron, redirect, and backdoor investigation
  • Hosting account review for cross-site contamination
  • Post-cleanup hardening recommendations

Cleanup approach

The goal is not just deleting obvious bad files. We preserve useful evidence where possible, compare changed files, review vulnerable components, clean the active infection, update what can be updated safely, and explain residual risk. If the site needs a rebuild after cleanup, that can become part of a redesign plan instead of a second separate project.

Local and remote help

Cyber Duct Tape is based in Lakewood, Colorado and provides website cleanup across the Denver metro area and remotely for businesses with hosting access.