Around mid-April news of attacks on WordPress based websites was spreading fast. Described as brute-force attacks, these botnets are intent on gaining access to websites by repeatedly hammering away at the administrative login. Some sources reported the April 2013 attack as being the worst ever.
The botnet’s job is to attack your WordPress login in an attempt to get the right combination of username and password that gets them logged in as the website administrator. In case you’re not quite grasping the seriousness of this, it means if they gain access they are LOGGED IN AS […]