I logged over 3,000 attempts to login to my WordPress sites on May 16th. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 1,501 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. So far today (Friday the 17th) I have logged over 1,800 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.
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WP-Login.php Attempts for May 15, 2013
Yesterday I logged over 2,200 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 1,473 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. So far today (Thursday the 16th) I have logged over 1,000 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.
WP-Login.php Attempts for May 14, 2013
Yesterday I logged over 4,500 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 3,340 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. So far today (Wednesday the 15th) I have logged over 800 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.
WP-Login.php Attempts for May 13, 2013
Yesterday I logged over 7,000 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 4,033 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. The attack started at 2:50 in the afternoon on Monday the 13th. Sunday I received only six attempts, so classifying this […]
Login Attempts to wp-login.php
While checking out my apache server logs last week, I noticed that one of my older sites was getting a fair amount of login attempts to wp-login.php from all over the world. So I started grabbing the login information to see what they were trying. The next batch of attacks lasted 23 minutes. The username […]
Bots Looking for Backups of wp-config.php
Here’s a new attack that occurred this afternoon: bot networks are searching for backup copies of wp-config.php. They searched for these four files on the root level of one of my web sites. wp-config.phpbak wp-config.php-bak wp-config.phpBAK wp-config.php-BAK The probes came from these four IP addresses, all within one minute of one another: 91.217.66.227 – Ukraine, […]
p=199999
I’m getting many many 404 errors on my web sites where someone is requesting the url of http://www.example.com/?feed=rss2&p=199999 Any idea what the attack is?
Twitter Updates for 2012-09-10
I have firewalled 208.53.158.59 http://t.co/5MlkKXNQ due to web abuse/hacking #
Twitter Updates for 2012-08-15
I'm having trouble authenticating (logging in) with a SSB built via FluidApp. Anyone else experience this? #
Twitter Updates for 2012-07-01
Just tried opting out of getting J.Crew junk mail catalogs. We'll see how effective that is. #privacy #junkmail # Also submitted my opt-out request of the http://t.co/rYTUbAC3 junk mail catalog. 508 pages of wasted paper. #privacy #junkmail # Just tried to opt-out of the @JCPenney #junkmail catalog. 96 pages of garbage. Sigh. #privacy #fingerscrossed #