We have been getting number of attack reports from clients with Wordpress installs and further investigating we found a global attacks on wordpress.
Right now there is a very severe and global attack on all Wordpress sites on the Internet and almost all hosting providers are affected. The attack is a brute-force attack which is global and highly distributed, This attack is well organized and again very, very distributed; we have seen high number of spoofed IP addresses involved in this attack. As the IP’s are spoofed, blocking the IP’s does not help much.
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Wordpress Login LockDown
Limits the number of login attempts from a given IP range within a certain time period.
Description
Login LockDown records the IP address and timestamp of every failed login attempt. If more than a certain number of attempts are detected within a short period of time from the same IP range, then the login function is disabled for all requests from that range. This helps to prevent brute force password discovery. Currently the plugin defaults to a 1 hour lock out of an IP block after 3 failed login attempts within 5 minutes. This can be modified via the Options panel. Admisitrators can release locked out IP ranges manually from the panel.
Installation
1. Extract the zip file into your plugins directory into its own folder.
2. Activate the plugin in the Plugin options.
3. Customize the settings from the Options panel, if desired.
Reference:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-lockdown/
