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Breaking: Aggressive WordPress Brute Force Attack Campaign Started Today, 3am UTC
A massive distributed brute force attack campaign targeting WordPress sites started this morning at 3am Universal Time, 7pm Pacific Time. The attack is broad in that it uses a large number of attacking IPs, and is also deep in that each IP is generating a huge number of attacks. This is the most aggressive campaign …
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In-Depth Analysis of a Criminal Organization Targeting WordPress Websites
Today we are posting an in-depth analysis of a prolific brute force attacker.
XMLRPC or WP-Login: Which do Brute Force Attackers Prefer
At Wordfence we constantly analyze attack patterns to improve the protection our firewall and malware scan provides.
Huge Increase in Brute Force Attacks in December and What to Do
Update: We posted a follow-up to this post on Monday December 19th which goes into more detail about the Ukraine IP block where these attacks originate from and we discuss possible Russia involvement.
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