09/01/2026
A compromised website does not always announce itself.
The homepage may look normal. Staff may still be able to log in. Forms may continue working.
Meanwhile, the site could be used for spam, phishing pages, malicious redirects or other activity happening largely out of view.
Sometimes the first visible sign is an email-delivery problem, a search-engine warning or an alert from a monitoring system.
That is one reason “the website is still working” is a poor measure of whether an unsupported platform is still safe to operate.
We look at that issue in our latest article:
https://intergen.org/blog/joomla/how-ai-changed-the-security-math-for-your-joomla-3-website