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Checking a site for intrusion means looking at both the signs visible from outside and the traces left inside. Signs: Search Console's Security issues report, a 'This site may be hacked' label in search, a notice from your host, unknown admins, redirects that happen only on mobile or from search. Traces: admin users, modified core files (wp core verify-checksums), login history, authorized_keys, cron, listening ports, recently changed files. This site's view: finding nothing does not prove you are clean. If you do find something, preserve evidence before cleaning, rotate every credential from a clean device, restore from a pre-intrusion backup or rebuild, close the entry point, and only then request a review.