404 hits on /mypostname/&

I think iThemes Security has a setting for automatically banning “too many 404 requests”

@rollingwolf I’ve enabled it on, but i can also block the source IP when a specified url is hit. So when you hit https://mydomainname.com/mypostname/& you’ll be blocked immediately. But I need to be sure these are not legal users who hit this urls because of some misconfiguration or bug.

Does those requests come with a referer? Or try searching for the url to the post and see if someone is linking to it from a forum or something, mayby use the debugger at developers.facebook.com and see if it has been shared on facebook.

Is it the same ip? Or if theyre different ips are they in the same range and/or country? Ive gotten a lot of bruteforceattacks from italy lately.

If you cant find it or you assume its bots thats searching for weak servers it would be safe to assume that you can go ahead and ban those requests.

And it may so happen that you link to it yourself with some malformed link from a plugin (either to a post/page or javascript/css file) so look at the source of your site with a browser (view source) and search for it.

The IP’s are different and not mine. I also got a lot of attacks from Italy.

I’ll give the debugger a try. Thanks for the support.