1,023 blocked malicious login attempts. Who trying to steal my blog? Any advises?
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My new blog growing up fast and I'm about the break the Alexa million and I discovered 1,023 blocked malicious login attempts today. I'm really got scared when I saw this number. I'm using WordPress, any advises?
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There will definitely be cases out there like you described, Massimiliano. It's a wild world out there. We can only do so much to protect ourselves.
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Honestly, I would strongly suggest to avoid blocking traffic on a geographic basis, these days you never know where traffic will come from and why.
User sitting in the building next to yours but accessing internet from a corporate network may appear as connecting from China.
Legit bot from services you are paying for may appear as crawling from Sweden, and other legit bot you don't even know about but which let you reach additional audience may appear as connecting from the other side of the world.
Blocking traffic is positively dangerous, the only case where I would consider it a good decision is when blocking blacklisted ips, and even this case I would suggest to secure the blacklist is updated regularly to avoid blocking false positive.
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Eslam - Many great suggestions here of the things you can do right now to help you with these hack attempts. One thing I'd like to add is that we use a service/plugin called Sucuri. We've had good luck with it so far. You can learn more about them here: http://sucuri.net/
Regarding the approach of blocking traffic from other countries, my thought is this. Does traffic from those countries bring any value to you and do you give value to those visitors? If you answer no to this question, then why not block it? For example, a local pizza shop's website in Portland, Oregon probably doesn't care bout web traffic from Lithuania and vice versa.
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Bulletproof Security is great and has many features to blocking such attempts and making it harder for those scripts that are just constantly scanning for the usual vulnerabilities.
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theres a wordpress plugin you can use that limits the number of login attempts (I used to use it but I forgot the name of it)
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Instructions here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-from-wp-loginphp-to-login
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It's won't type my password there really. I don't know ...
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I don't think it's easy to change it because there PHP complicated things that I don't know about. But, I will search for a trusted plugin or something like that. Seems like a good solution.
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I don't know, it's a very abuse thing to ban traffic from a country. If you are saying these attacks are automated so they are not humans?
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I've. But, do you think it's enough. I'm talking about that I'm talking with you right now and there's someone right there trying to steal my thing. Hard feeling really.
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I agree with Massimillano here.
Three things you should do for all common CMS systems (WP, Joomla, ect..)
First change the admin directory to something else. When doing this you likely have to edit configuration files to point to the new location which is pretty simple.
Second protect admin directory with .htaccess & .htpasswd. There is a nice generator I have used on some of my sites in the past here.
Third create a honeypot / auto IP ban for malicious crawlers or script kiddies. There are several plugins for this if you search the keywords honeypot + cms.
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Change the name of the login page, I mean in addition to having a strong password of course.
Those automated scripts look first for the known wp login page if they don't find it the will give up, if they do they will keep trying forever and ever, an unecessary load for your servers.
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This is a very common thing. Most of these attacks are automated, coming from China or Eastern Europe. You may consider banning traffic from those countries all together if it's not relevant to you. Change the default admin user name to something else. And do as EGOL recommended - set a really strong password. And then change that password every few months.
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Make a really strong password.
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