Many attempted a failed login as "admin"

  • Resolved nphunghung

    (@nphunghung)


    10 years ago

    Hello!
    I’ve installed plugin Wordfence Security and used Live Traffic function to check access. At Logins and Logouts tab, I see:

    Lebanon Beirut, Lebanon attempted a failed login as “admin“.
    IP: 37.209.251.137 [block]
    1 mins ago
    Philippines Marikina, Philippines attempted a failed login as “admin“.
    IP: 121.58.237.34 [block]
    7 mins ago
    Australia Wheelers Hill, Australia attempted a failed login as “admin“.
    IP: 101.187.18.115 [block]
    Hostname: zar1540348.lnk.telstra.net
    16 mins ago
    Canada Victoria, Canada attempted a failed login as “admin“.
    IP: 23.16.180.196 [block]
    Hostname: d23-16-180-196.bchsia.telus.net
    18 mins ago
    Japan Fujieda, Japan attempted a failed login as “admin“.
    IP: 120.137.246.164 [block]
    Hostname: p164.net120137246.tokai.or.jp
    23 mins ago
    Spain Spain attempted a failed login as “admin“.
    IP: 90.165.168.118 [block]
    25 mins ago

    It mean have attacks on my login page. I’ve protect my login page by PHP_AUTH_USER/PASSWORD and add captcha for login page. But such attacks still occur regularly. I’ve set up:

    Login Security Options

    Enforce strong passwords?
    Lock out after how many login failures 3
    Lock out after how many forgot password attempts 3
    Count failures over what time period 1 day
    Amount of time a user is locked out 1 day
    Immediately lock out invalid usernames (ticked)
    Don’t let WordPress reveal valid users in login errors (ticked)
    Prevent users registering ‘admin’ username if it doesn’t exist (ticked)
    Prevent discovery of usernames through ‘?/author=N’ scans (ticked)

    but the results are not as expected. In ‘Blocked IPs’ page, at tab “IPs that are Locked Out from Login”: No IP addresses have been locked out from signing in or using the password recovery system.

    How to protect my login page? Thanks you!

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  • I receive the same attacks related to brute force logins using the ‘admin’ login.

    However I don’t use an account named admin on any of my sites so I just set wordfence to immediately lock out users that attempt to log in using an account named ‘admin’.

    You can do those on the line right after the last one you listed…

    Immediately block the IP of users who try to sign _____

    Thread Starter nphunghung

    (@nphunghung)

    Oh, I didn’t notice this feature. Thanks you very much. I’m still surprised by this brute force attack ??

    WFSupport

    (@wfsupport)

    Hi

    Unfortunately, hackers are gonna hack. It’s sad but true. ?? I always look at it like a reminder to make sure I am doing my part to keep my site safe byt making sure my passwords are secure, performing scans, updating my core, plugins, and themes. All those things help protect you.

    Let us know if you have any other questions.

    tim

    ps Thanks @mkokes!

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