Suddenly hundreds of attempted logins

  • Resolved Andy Woggle

    (@andy-woggle)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello folk. I might be just jumping the gun at the minute, I think I probably just need some clarification here (apologies if so)

    Here goes- I have a site that was initially running Securi as it’s security plug-in. Everything was running fine, it had log-in.php hidden and it emailed me whenever I or one of the four editors on the site logged in succesfully. Not a problem at all been up and live for about six months without a concern. Until last night.

    I checked my email at about midnight to find a BRUTE FORCE attack email from them, listing a load of IP addresses. I went in to check and see what I could do, to find the Firewall section is only available in the Pro section so had to have a bit of a work-around (It’s for a massively under-funded charity, we simply don’t have the funds to pay out what Securi where charging)

    No problem, I came across you guys. I’ve installed and set everything up as securely as I think I can..

    My main concern is thus- since about 3AM this morning until now (19:50 GMT) I have since had 549 emails, all subnet blocks or attempting to access wp-login. Am I panicking without cause, or is this not “normal” behaviour? The site is running fine and nothing untoward is seeming to have happened barring this sudden onslaught of attacks. Is this a common thing or have I need for worry?

    My main concern is that if these blocks are all heading towards a 404, will this eventually cripple my bandwidth?

    Thanks for reading. Hopefully someone can put me out of my misery here.

    Andy

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wp-cerber/

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  • Plugin Author gioni

    (@gioni)

    Hi!

    No worries, that’s absolutely normal and the plugin is untended to protect site against attacks like you described.
    By the way, a new version of the plugin will have an option to set a limit on the number of notification letters.
    On your worries about bandwidth, only your hosting provide can clarify something, but from my experience very unlikely those attempts cripple your bandwidth. Usually, to consume significant amount of the available bandwidth, rate of incoming requests must be very high, something like one million per hour.

    Thread Starter Andy Woggle

    (@andy-woggle)

    Thank you so much for your speedy response!

    I did suspect that this *might* have been totally normal, but due to this never having happened once in six months of being “live” it did give me that pit-of-the-stomach feeling that only a white screen/it’s all gone to pot can give!

    Update- since 19-50 GMT, I’ve only had 3 more attempts blocked, so I’m guessing that attack is over.

    Thanks again Gioni. Your reassurance is much, much appreciated

    Andy

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