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WordPress Brute Force Attacks are at An All-Time High
Search Engine Journal
September 16, 2015

WordPress security watchdogs, Sucuri, have revealed that “brute force” attacks are at an all time high.


A brute force attack occurs when an attacker runs a script that attempts to crack a website’s password. This occurs by attempting to log in to a site with automatically generated passwords at rate of thousands of times per minute.

Brute force attacks are not new — in fact, they’ve been around over 15 years, and data shows they’re still going strong.


There have been so many this year that Sucuri has created a new page dedicated to monitoring the current threat level of brute force attacks.

Don't let your website fall victim to ever increasing security vulnerabilities.

Keep your site up to date with the latest security releases for both WordPress and any and all plug-ins you are using.

Keep your passwords strong and secure and change them, from time to time.

Consider outsourcing your site maintenance to ensure that this aspect of owning a website doesn't become a low priority and leave you vulnerable.