Multisite – Blocked malicious login attempts stat

  • Resolved hamellr

    (@hamellr)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Feature request, no actual problem.

    I have a multisite running roughly 30 sites through it. Recently a few of the sites underwent a massive hack attempt, raising the Blocked malicious login attempts number to over 16,000 attempts in a couple of days.

    Unfortunately this number is the same across all sites, raising some concern among admins of individual sites that were not subject to the hacking attempt. I’ve explained the situation, but it would be nice if this number was tracked on a “per site” basis, with the total number tracked on the MU Network Dashboard.

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  • Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Due to the way login works on a Multisite network, I’d argue that all site owners are in fact subject to the hacking attempt. Indeed, if a hacker were able to log in to one site, they’d have access to all the other sites in the network if the account they used was an admin on all sites, or a super admin.

    However if the number raised some concerns among individual site admins, maybe we should work on that notice a bit, to make it more clear that a high number is actually not a bad thing, since the attempts were blocked. Do you have any suggestions on that? Or would you rather hide the number altogether to avoid any confusion?

    Thread Starter hamellr

    (@hamellr)

    If it is a multisite, I personally would prefer it to be hidden on the Network Admin Page and kept from the admins. I would like, if possible, a way to see from there which domains are getting hit the most so that I can remind admins about security when an event is happening.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Thanks for the extra details!

    I took note of both of your suggestions here:
    https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/2399
    https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/2398

    Feel free to subscribe to the issues to follow our progress on this.

    I’ll also post again here as soon as we address these 2 ideas.

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