There is currently a significant attack being launched at a large number of WordPress blogs across the Internet. The attacker is brute force attacking the WordPress administrative portals, mainly using the username "admin" and trying thousands of passwords. It appears a botnet is being used to launch the attack and more than tens of thousands of unique IP addresses have been recorded attempting to hack WordPress installs.

We have placed a fix below. Please note this fix is only a recommendation and could be not compatible with your WordPress setup .

Media Stop is not responsible for any issues arising from this fix. Please contact your web Developer/Designer if not confident to take.


To see if your site is being targeted, there’s a great Activity Monitor plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/threewp-activity-monitor/

And if you are being targeted (you’ll see the failed login attempts), use the Limit Login Attempts plugin to prevent brute force attempts from gaining access to your site.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/


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Friday, April 12, 2013

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