Hello happy Internet dwellers. Some nasty “bots” are trying to hack WordPress sites all over the globe at the moment. Hopefully it will settle down soon. Give us a shout if you’re concerned or worried about your own WordPress site.
Matt Mullenweg summarises the WordPress attack simply as follows:
Right now there’s a botnet going around all of the WordPresses it can find trying to login with the “admin” username and a bunch of common passwords
The recommended course of action is as follows:
If you still use “admin” as a username on your blog, change it, use a strong password, if you’re on WP.com turn on two-factor authentication, and of course make sure you’re up-to-date on the latest version of WordPress. Do this and you’ll be ahead of 99% of sites out there and probably never have a problem.
Hope this proves useful. Keep on bloggin!
Further reading:
http://blog.hostgator.com/2013/04/11/global-wordpress-brute-force-flood/
http://www.hostdime.com/blog/2013/04/brute-force-attack-affecting-global-wordpress-installations/
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