Images on my server redirecing to Google? - html

Question

So I woke up this morning to my Wordpress websites all having their htaccess file modified (redirecting to spam). I replaced them with a backup file:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
And then I refreshed my site and only 5% of the images from my /images/ folder are showing up.
All of my <img src paths are absolute. Even if I go to my image directory and click the image link directly, my browser thinks for a little bit and then goes to: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl
However, like I said, about 5% of the image links do actually work, and they're all the same filetype in the same directory.
It's very strange.
Edit: It seems to have been a server cache thing, things cleared up on their own after a few more minutes.

Answer 1

First, clear the cache of your browser, or try with a "Private Session" of Chrome / Firefox, maybe redirects are just still in your cache.
Second, check if there is another .htaccess in the images directory or in any parent directory up to the root of your site and check its content.
Third, check if non working images are presents on filesystem.
If there aren't anymore the redirect come from Wordpress and not from Apache.
Your CMS has been defaced, if you have a backup I think it's a good idea to restore it, or at least compare it file by file with your actual site (WinMerge can help you doing this).
I strongly suggest you to restore the backup and then check if your Wordpress installation is up-to-date and so every wordpress plugin you use.