Site hack attempts and BPS Security

  • bowlandwalks

    (@bowlandwalks)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Over the last couple of days it appears that people from all around the world are trying to log into my site. They are getting blocked after two failed attempts but literally the minute after the block finishes (after an hour) someone else tries and it blocks the account again.
    Does anyone else get this?

    I’ve had my site hacked once before and had to spend hours putting it right, so this is concerning me a bit. Or should I not be worried? Here are some more IP’s.

    72.233.127.179
    107.191.108.111
    162.13.121.139
    50.57.43.122
    96.30.56.139
    217.146.69.13
    69.25.136.98 (blocked twice)
    31.13.217.228 (blocked twice)
    82.113.137.247
    217.115.202.70
    174.142.208.218
    178.33.186.8
    89.187.135.30
    81.169.201.30
    54.186.10.19

    Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter bowlandwalks

    (@bowlandwalks)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Site is http://www.bowlandwalks.co.uk

    kathtam

    (@kathtam)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I have this same problem. I removed wp-login.php to try and stop them. But they keep coming.

    Thread Starter bowlandwalks

    (@bowlandwalks)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    It’s an absolute nightmare isn’t it. I am trying to figure out if it’s bots and harmless, or whether I am literally being bombarded by hackers.

    kathtam

    (@kathtam)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I have had it before. It’s bots but am sure it is some low life trying to show how clever they are.

    Thread Starter bowlandwalks

    (@bowlandwalks)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Yeah probably. Latest one just in:

    Status: Locked

    Role: administrator

    Lockout Time: 14/01/2015 7:03 pm

    Lockout Time Expires: 14/01/2015 8:03 pm

    User IP Address: 87.106.143.176

    User Hostname: gamma.lambda-systems.de

    Request URI: /wp-login.php

    Site: http://www.bowlandwalks.co.uk

    kathtam

    (@kathtam)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Still a problem?

    Thread Starter bowlandwalks

    (@bowlandwalks)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hey,

    Yeah, here’s last night’s hacks.

    Thread Starter bowlandwalks

    (@bowlandwalks)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Oops, link.

    kathtam

    (@kathtam)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    Why don’t you try deleting the wp-login.php file. It has worked with three other sites I have. And when I want to update I copy it back, update and delete again.

    However that doesn’t work with every site. They seem to be able to get behind that file and keep their evil probe going.

    I managed to “fix” three in this way and am left with a problem with just one.

    leejosepho

    (@leejosepho)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    The solution for all of this will ultimately be found in getting out in front of WordPress and culling the undesirable access attempts that do not originate from a link at the site. I have yet to accomplish that completely, but I am still working at trying to learn how to do so. At the moment, I am using just one instance of the stand-alone Pro+ version of https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninjafirewall/ out ahead my sites, and that is greatly reducing undesirable traffic. However, I have yet to learn how to customize it to let certain things on through like I would assume the plugin can do at a single site.

    Another plugin that gets out ahead of WordPress is WP Simple Firewall, but I believe there are others also and I have yet to look beyond Ninja.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=wp+simple+firewall

    Thread Starter bowlandwalks

    (@bowlandwalks)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry for the delay in replying, I’ve been out in the countryside with no signal on my phone. When I finally got a signal back my phone went mad, pinging me emails for all the new hacking attempts!

    Thanks both for the replies, I am going to try them now.

    kathtam

    (@kathtam)

    11 years, 3 months ago

    The bot has lost interest in my site. No more alerts. Did you get any closer to a solution?

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