Is this a brute force attack?

  • wordpressjva

    (@wordpressjva)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    Hello everyone,

    For the last few days I have been seeing this type of traffic on my logs coming from multiple IPs. When I look at the access logs at the console the logs just scroll on by none stop. These goes on every minute that it puts my server to a crawl.

    (ips cut out) – – [03/Oct/2013:14:44:33 -0400] “POST /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php HTTP/1.1” 200 603

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Try reviewing Brute Force Attacks. if you are worried by this.

    Thread Starter wordpressjva

    (@wordpressjva)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    I have read through it. I have locked down my /wp-admin folder using .htaccess. I have used bruteprotect and all in one wp security. But the problem still persists. So my question is, is this legit traffic or an ongoing attack?

    The only way so far I am able to stop it is by using a firewall in front of the webserver and blocking the IPs generating the traffic.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    The link in esmi’s reply above provides some good tips. Have you tried implementng any of them?

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