I logged over 3,000 attempts to login to my WordPress sites on May 16th. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 1,501 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. So far today (Friday the 17th) I have logged over 1,800 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.
WP-Login.php Attempts for May 15, 2013
Yesterday I logged over 2,200 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 1,473 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. So far today (Thursday the 16th) I have logged over 1,000 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.
WP-Login.php Attempts for May 14, 2013
Yesterday I logged over 4,500 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 3,340 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. So far today (Wednesday the 15th) I have logged over 800 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.
WP-Login.php Attempts for May 13, 2013
Yesterday I logged over 7,000 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 4,033 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. The attack started at 2:50 in the afternoon on Monday the 13th. Sunday I received only six attempts, so classifying this […]
Comment Spam Increase This Week
Has anyone else noticed a large increase in the amount of comment spam that Akismet is missing this week? I’ve tagged and deleted more comment spam in the past week than I have in the past 6 months. I would guess across all of my WordPress sites, I’m manually tagging 10 messages a day. That […]