Redirected site is still sending messages
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This more of a curiosity than anything. I use Sucuri everywhere (60+ sites), I use it because it provides the best insight I have found so far about what hackers are doing/ attempting to do. More so than many of the other similar plugins. I have a situation where I have consolidated two sites to one location and created a new domain name. If anyone attempts to go to an old domain name they end up in a directory where it redirects to the new site. This is a global redirect. So in other words the old wordpress site(s) no longer exists if you try to get there using the domain name. The old site also exists in some different hosting, but DNS no longer points to it. So in theory it is impossible to get to. That said, three days later I am still getting messages from the old site that it is under a brute force attack from the Sucuri plugin on that site. Any idea how or why that is? The only thing I can think of is if someone knew the direct name of the hosting directory something was located in, in other words not using DNS. Under such circumstances I would anticipate that Sucuri might report the real URL rather than the one the site was originally hosted under. It is bit misleading if you are pulling the site name from the database. But that was not the method used to attack the site. – Just a thought, otherwise a great plugin. – Thanks.
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