--- title: Venture Fund Website Casino Spam Cleanup | Sukesh Das url: https://sukeshdas.com/project/venture-fund-website-casino-spam-cleanup/ description: Emergency overnight cleanup of a hacked WordPress site for an AI healthcare venture fund: thousands of casino spam pages removed from Google, a rogue admin locked out and the site moved to SiteGround. --- [Back to portfolio](https://sukeshdas.com/portfolio/) # Venture Fund Website Casino Spam Cleanup Emergency overnight cleanup of a hacked WordPress site for an AI healthcare venture fund: thousands of casino spam pages removed from Google, a rogue admin locked out and the site moved to SiteGround. [Get a free quoteGet a quote](https://sukeshdas.com/contact-us/) ![Google results for a venture fund website, before the cleanup full of casino spam and after showing only the real pages](https://sukeshdas.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/venture-fund-casino-spam-before-after.webp) Results Casino spam pages removed from Google 1000s From hacked to live on new hosting 1 night For Google to drop the spam 24 hrs > I had an emergency and the team jumped in right away to help even though it was 2am their time. I really appreciated his willingness to go above and beyond and the quick communication and effectiveness of their work. Would highly recommend and look forward to working together again soon! **Maria** venture fund founder Client review A US venture fund that backs AI companies in healthcare runs its website on WordPress. It’s the first place founders and investors check before a meeting. At the client’s request, the fund’s name is kept private here. ## The problem The site had been hacked, cleaned by someone else, and hacked again. Google had indexed thousands of spam pages under the fund’s domain: online casinos, roulette “strategies” and betting apps, written in Polish, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese. A search for the fund showed gambling pages instead of its portfolio. The client messaged me late at night her time. It was past midnight in Bangladesh too, but the site needed to be fixed that day, so I started right away. ![Google results for a venture fund website full of casino spam pages in several languages](https://sukeshdas.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/venture-fund-casino-spam-results.webp) ## What I did, through the night ### 1. Assessment - Mapped the spam in Google and collected the URL patterns the hack used. - Found two extra staging sites on the old hosting, one of them likely left behind by the attacker. - Found the premium theme was running without a valid license, so it had missed security updates. The client bought a genuine license and I installed the clean, official copy. ### 2. Cleanup and migration to SiteGround - Moved the site off the old hosting to SiteGround for better performance and stronger security. - Moved only clean files: fresh WordPress core, the licensed theme and clean plugin copies, with the uploads checked for hidden PHP backdoors. - Cleaned the database of injected spam content. - Had the site live and loading from the new hosting by around 4 a.m. my time. ### 3. Locking out the attacker - Reviewed every admin account. A former contractor’s admin user was still trying to log in repeatedly from an outside IP address, so with the client’s agreement I removed it. - Had all remaining admin passwords changed and kept only the accounts the client actually uses. - Advised removing the leftover sites from the old hosting entirely. ### 4. Getting the spam out of Google - Made sure every spam URL returns “not found”. - Submitted the spam URLs to Google for removal. Within a day they were gone from the results. ## Before and after Before, a search for the site returned page after page of casino spam. After, Google shows only the fund’s real pages. ![Google results for a venture fund website, before the cleanup full of casino spam and after showing only the real pages](https://sukeshdas.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/venture-fund-casino-spam-before-after.webp) ## Where it stands The site is clean, running on SiteGround with a licensed, up-to-date theme, and the old admin access is gone. The whole job was finished ahead of the two-day deadline. Spam pages showing up under your domain? [Let’s get your site cleaned up](/contact/). ## Services used on this project 3 services - [WordPress website development Custom WordPress sites on a lightweight theme, with the block editor set up the way you will actually use it and only the plugins you need.](https://sukeshdas.com/services/wordpress-web-design/) - [Malware cleaning and security setup Hacked, redirecting or flagged by Google? I remove the infection, find out how it got in, close that gap and request removal of the warnings.](https://sukeshdas.com/services/wordpress-malware-removal/) - [Website migration Moving between WordPress, Squarespace, Wix and Webflow, or to a better host, with a plan that protects content, rankings and email.](https://sukeshdas.com/services/website-migration/) Share this project ## Project details Category Malware removal Client AI healthcare venture fund (name kept private) Services [WordPress website development](https://sukeshdas.com/services/wordpress-web-design/), [Malware cleaning and security setup](https://sukeshdas.com/services/wordpress-malware-removal/), [Website migration](https://sukeshdas.com/services/website-migration/) Timeline Overnight (1 day) Location United States ## Have a similar project? Tell me what you need. I'll respond within 4 hours. 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