I had a flood of hits trying to guess my password last night.<\/p>\n
54.254.161.39 – 30438 hits – Amazon Data Services Japan – US
\n78.47.197.187 – 42721 hits – itDesk – DE<\/p>\n
Both ip ranges have been blocked for months now, so that the robots running this received 73,000 “403 Access Denied” messages. They hit my site 5 or 6 times a second starting yesterday afternoon and they were still hitting me when I downloaded the logs just now.<\/p>\n
The question is, was I specifically targeted, or was I one of any number of sites being hit because of my page rank? Anyone who has access to my site could upload hacked versions of my plugins so that others could download them. I checked and the file size and the date of all the plugins match.<\/p>\n
Not to help the robots, but there was no referrer or use agent information. Even my older Stop Spammers plugin would have blocked them on the first hit. This is a very crude, even stupid, attack by amateurs. Amazon and ItDesk have been informed and I am sure the accounts will be cancelled. I am also sure that I will be attacked again, soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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