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Stopping Brute Force Attack – Block IPs or Captcha

JL joon lee
joon lee
Member

I am suffering from a brute force attack and we have more than 2000 members who can’t login to the site.

https://www2.suresupport.com/brute-force-attack-detected.html

 

We installed the plugin “wordfence” but I found out that a lot of IPs tried to login with the username “admin” 

 

I was thinking, maybe we can have an option in the “login” area to activate “simple press login captcha” to block these brute force attack.

 

What do you recommend us to do?

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BR Brandon
Brandon
Member

I like the limit login attempts. http://wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts/ It stops the bots from guessing after so many tries.

Adding a captcha is good too.  Sometimes more than just one thing helps. :)

Trying the username of Admin is also not uncommon. You shouldn’t use that username at all on the site.

JL joon lee
joon lee
Member

How other members manage this?

because after 20 bruteforce attack, our server says,

https://www2.suresupport.com/brute-force-attack-detected.html

and captcha can’t stop the message. Failed login attempts -> it doesn’t really work because brute force is attacking from 20 different IPs

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

I do the limit login attempt things… wont stop but does slow down…  would suggest searching wp forums as they have suggestions such as http authentication and other more obtrusive steps…