etc. etc.
They never seem to give up. Yet there’s nothing personal, confidential nor financial hosted. So it’s clear their goal is to take over a site for their own content, which from cyber security experience, is typically for unlawful purposes and content. Majority of these attempts are from networks used for Tor Exits, such as 185(dot)220(dot)101(dot)144.
So does anyone know what these folks are up to?
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I am able to access /xmlrpc.php using the Insomnia REST Client from 185.220.70.155 [IP by the Private Internet Access VPN]
Yet within your app: status is XML-RPC is disabled, and .htaccess has following:
<Files xmlrpc.php>
Require all denied
ErrorDocument 403 error.php
</Files>
For now file permissions disabled manually.
2nd issue:
Menus at the bottom of your plugin need to be updated to correct links. (screenshot) https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-RAAH5WXAYUDuNOcha3vdmKP_1UathR/view?usp=sharing
Thanks.
]]>there should also be a verification method for valid site owners to get back in — via the email registered to Defender creator/site owner. my internet modem had to be rebooted because of construction in area, so my IP changed. my IP is associated w/ my local/direct fingerprint to access admin area. this happened one other time before, w/ another plugin, but in their case, I was simply able to remove the blacklisted IP, login and whitelist IP. with defender, removing the blacklisted entry from database, didn’t suffice, I was blacklisted for the duration of my settings: PERMANENT.
all I did was mistype 2 letters (one before other), clicked enter too fast before correcting, cringed and locked out because option for Defender Login lockout is 1 attempt — yes that serious because of all of these login attempts since 2016 w/ thousands of new attempts not added to this list: Amazon, Digital Ocean, Serbia https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17hYtvOUkRPHBxofXaxNXQyokwVzthYlVAWf_BBk1RV4/edit?usp=sharing
Digital Ocean https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ezlYSRRu9bV5Ep4PB4Q9fzrnjuiABm3GfHOpVVf6_18/edit?usp=sharing
for me, I can only access admin area by validating “fingerprint”, which is why I installed this app because we don’t allow signups, just comments on posts. so when locked out, I had to login to entire server, give VPN info to verify it’s me trying to login to admin area, keep fingers crossed that connection not dropped, else, I’d have to start over, then paste that info into admin area, then login, then whitelist my ip that was locked, then disconnect from VPN, then login with my actual IP.
]]>I have not tried resetting or changing the password from the database from fear something will go wrong. I tried to click e-mail me anew password from the wp-admin page, but something is fishy. It sends my to my own website asking for my e-mail to send me the new password. Why would it through this directly from my site? I don’t feel safe putting my e-mail in what could potentially be my hacked website. The certificate was also removed from my site (I’m guessing by Google since it may not be a safe site).
What do I do at this point? I want to log in so I can download a plugin to scan the 09/24/17 WordPress site and verify that it is clean, but it won’t let me log in. I scanned the back up of my most recent version of the site (which is no longer up on the web), and it was riddled with viruses. I discovered this after scanning with 5 different antivirus programs. I don’t think I can safely restore that version anymore.
I am new at this and this is my first website, I am in over my head and have no one to speak to. Please don’t refer me to the same 5 WordPress articles that give me the most basic information to solve this problem. I’ve already tried the solutions and they aren’t much help. I need more help but don’t know where to get it.
Thank you.
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