Title: Brute Force Attacks
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Brute Force Attacks

 *  [Andylesavage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andylesavage/)
 * (@andylesavage)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attacks-10/)
 * Hello,
 * Can someone please help? We cannot access our backend because of a Brute Force
   Attack where the bot is attempting to login every 15 minutes creating an invalid
   attempt which is then not allowing us to login because of to many invalid attempts.
 * Do we look to move the wp-admin through our hosting provider? The hosting provider
   has no clue about this. Do we reach out to WordPress?
 * Thank you!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [Gerroald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerroald/)
 * (@gerroald)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attacks-10/#post-6333149)
 * Hi,
 * I’d suggest creating a new user, transfer all content to it and delete the old
   one. If you can’t access your site to do this, then deactivate the plugin via
   FTP by renaming it’s directory to something like ithemes-security-pro.bak. Once
   you’re in and made the adjustments you can rename it back to reactivate it.
 * Thanks,
 * Gerroald

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Gerroald](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerroald/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/brute-force-attacks-10/#post-6333149)
 * Status: not resolved