Hopkins, Hackfinder General
It hunts for hackers, not witches.
Hopkins checks your website for hacks every day, at 03:00 Central European time, and emails you a report.
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The name borrows from Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled Witchfinder General of 17th-century England.
Why Hopkins exists
For years, most attacks on small websites came from script kiddies: people running ready-made tools against a list of well-known flaws in common software. A site that was kept up to date, or simply built differently, was usually passed over.
That has changed. With AI, even an inexperienced attacker can pick apart a one-of-a-kind site and find a mistake in its custom code.
Being small, unusual or unknown no longer keeps a website safe.
So Hopkins checks your website for hacks every day, and tells you.
What you get
- A report every day
- By email: a short all-clear when all is well, or a plain-English alert when something needs your attention.
- Nothing to install
- No software to add and nothing for you to run.
- Your site left as it is
- Hopkins checks and reports. It never changes your website.
How to get started
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Write to us
Send your website address to [email protected].
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Hopkins starts checking
Your website joins the daily check.
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Your reports arrive
A report lands in your inbox every day.
Questions
What is Hopkins?
A daily hack check for your website, run by cru2.net, with a report sent to you by email.
Do I need to install anything?
No. There is nothing to install and nothing for you to run.
Will it change my website?
No. Hopkins checks and reports. It never changes your site.
How often does it check?
Every day, at 03:00 Central European time.
Which websites can it check?
WordPress, Joomla and other PHP websites.
How do I start?
Write to [email protected] with your website address.
Questions about how your data is handled? Write to [email protected].
Want a human to look at your code as well?
If your site or app was largely written by an AI coding assistant, our Vibe Code Security Audits at SEO Engineers are a human-led security review of exactly that: senior security engineers go through the code the way an attacker would, looking at authentication, authorisation, data rules, secrets and cost exposure.
Also from us
- SEO Engineers
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- WP Honeypot Guard
- A free WordPress plugin that plants fake attack paths on your site. Nobody real ever requests them, only automated scanners do, and any IP that touches one gets blocked for an hour. Get the free plugin or read more.
Who runs it
Hopkins is run by cru2.net, a small, independent web hosting outfit in Malta, Europe, run by Dave and hosting websites since 1999.