It is always good to see international cooperation amongst different nations in this great world. However, when China, India and Russia cooperate to try to break into my site, forgive me when I get a little upset. While I usually file complaints to internet host providers, in this case the complaint would fall on deaf ears: hosts in China, India and Russia ignore abuse emails. Then most hosts from all over the world ignore abuse emails.
Number of login attempts: 417
All the user agent names are the same: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Strong, WordPress is, otherwise it would have been breached long ago. These three attackers did a brute force login attack on me today. This is not the first and will certainly not be the last. While I can track down the IP and ISP, and ban them, their origins I will never know. This is the murky world of the internet, and it is worldwide.
41.76.123.243: 41.76.123.0 – 41.76.123.255 WIFLY GA GABON has tried security hacks on my site before, 6 attempts