Effective blocking of brute force attacks.

  • I have just seen that more that more than 22,000 brute force attacks occurred, originating from one IP on one of my sites over a period of six hours, all blocked effectively by Wordfence. This stopped about two hours ago and another started from a different IP, which has already numbered more than 16,000 blocked hits, thanks to Wordfence.

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  • Thumbs up. Is it a particular part of your site they’re attacking?

    Thread Starter Malae

    (@malae)

    The attacks start with tries to access the admin, the IP is then blocked, but the attacks continued at a rate of about 1 per second. Interesting that both stopped at just over 22,000 hits, presumably similar bots. Yesterday was a busy time worldwide with attacks on WordPress sites peaking at over 30,000 per minute.

    I’ve renamed my “admin” user via direct access to the database. They can try all the passwords in the world for “admin.” None of them will work. I feel your annoyance with watching brute force attacks waste resources.

    Thread Starter Malae

    (@malae)

    You are not understanding what happens. When there is a report that my limit on log-on tries to ‘admin’ has been exceeded, the e-mail informs me what the last user name was. It may be admin or other user name. I don’t use admin as my user name, but the brute force attacks can vary both user name and password. I am concerned, but not annoyed, when it happens and don’t understand what you mean by wasting resources.

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