Question
My IPV4 redirects to an unknown website, what should I do now?
- Posted on September 12, 2020
- DigitalOcean Cloud FirewallsDigitalOcean
Asked by nishant290195nkr
As already obvious from the title, as soon as I copy the IPV4 of my droplet and paste it in the search bar of the chrome browser, it gets redirected to an unknown website. What should I do now?
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Hi there @nishant290195nkr,
I could suggest a couple of things:
First check your webserver configuration and make sure that there are no suspicious redirects. This would depend on the webserver that you are using:
/etc/apache2/sites-enableddirectory/etc/nginx/sites-enableddirectoryCheck the IP addresses that have last accessed your server, you can do that with the following command:
If you noticed any successful login attempts form suspicious IP addresses, I would recommend restoring a backup of your Droplet from a date when this was working as expected
If you are using a CMS like WordPress, I would recommend running a quick scan to try and identify any malicious files. You could use a plugin like Wordfence to do the scan.
Regards, Bobby