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WP-Login.php Attempts for May 16, 2013

Michael Clark — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:55:28 +0000

I logged over 3,000 attempts to login to my WordPress sites on May 16th. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 1,501 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

So far today (Friday the 17th) I have logged over 1,800 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.

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WP-Login.php Attempts for May 15, 2013

Michael Clark — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:11:46 +0000

Yesterday I logged over 2,200 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 1,473 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

So far today (Thursday the 16th) I have logged over 1,000 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.

WP-Login.php Attempts for May 14, 2013

Michael Clark — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:10:32 +0000

Yesterday I logged over 4,500 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 3,340 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

So far today (Wednesday the 15th) I have logged over 800 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php.

WP-Login.php Attempts for May 13, 2013

Michael Clark — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:40:25 +0000

Yesterday I logged over 7,000 attempts to login to my WordPress sites. Luckily, they were mostly immediately blocked, added to my firewall. The list of 4,033 different attacking IP addresses can be found here. The attack started at 2:50 in the afternoon on Monday the 13th. Sunday I received only six attempts, so classifying this as an attack is definitely appropriate. 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

So far today (Tuesday the 14th) I have logged over 2,800 attempts to log into my sites via wp-login.php. And that number has increased by 25 in the time it’s taken me to type these few sentences.

Comment Spam Increase This Week

Michael Clark — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:21:03 +0000

Has anyone else noticed a large increase in the amount of comment spam that Akismet is missing this week? I’ve tagged and deleted more comment spam in the past week than I have in the past 6 months. I would guess across all of my WordPress sites, I’m manually tagging 10 messages a day. That is a huge increase. Are the spammers simply attacking at a higher rate? Or is Akismet not as effective as it used to be? 7b1d91231a87fb75e0054e886a0dea57

And why can’t Akismet learn that a comment in the format of: “eight words, all lowercase, all at least 7 letters long, a link inside an anchor tag, then the close tag, then a URL” is spam?

A setting you can make to help under WordPress 2.5: Go to the Settings tab, then the Discussion sub-tab. Under “Comment Moderation” have a “1” for “Hold a comment in the queue if it contains __ or more links.”