Possibility of being hacked?

Hi there,

You can install malware detection software like Linux Malware Detect, also known as Maldet or LMD. It will help you to locate any malicious files on your droplet.

If you’re interested in securing your droplet (everyone should be in general) you can double-check our tutorial - An Introduction to Securing your Linux VPS.

The article will cover the basic and some more advanced steps in website and server security.

You can check the article here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-securing-your-linux-vps

Hope that this helps!

also, more simply, just change the login page for wordpress from wp-login.php to something else.

I do this now on every wordpress install I do, and it reduces those brute-force attacks to zero.

you can then delete wp-login.php, but I still add a line to my .htaccess to protect it, since it gets added back during updates:

    #prevents access to wp-config
    <Files wp-config.php>
    order allow,deny
    deny from all
    </Files>

#prevents access to wp-login
   <Files wp-login.php>
    order allow,deny
    deny from all
    </Files>

It’s also probably not a bad idea to add a host based detection system (HIDS) like Tripwire or OSSEC. These collect details about your filesystem and configuration. It then stores this information to reference and validate the current state of the system. If changes are found between the known-good state and the current state, it could be a sign that your security has been compromised. This software can keep track of many different filesystem data points in order to detect whether unauthorized changes have occurred. Good luck.