Strange special character/Latin characters

Still no idea that why and how this happened all of sudden. But here is the 2 Solutions I found which is working: Applying anyone will work

1. Comment these two - //define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8') and //define('DB_COLLATE', '')
2. Use Latin1, ('DB_CHARSET', 'latin1')

However, I am suspecting some attacks on our sever where blogs are hosted and investigating into this.