So yesterday my site got hit by a large number(140) of Chinese IP addresses all trying to login to my site.
Fail2 ban blocked them and sent me lots of emails:
Then this morning another pile of Chinese IP addresses ( over 100 ) attempted to login to my email server:
Fail2ban blocked those too.
Then this afternoon I noticed another pattern appearing in my logs:
And guess what… it’s China again…. and soon after this rather obvious controlled bot attack the wp-login attempts started again.
Getting pretty sick and fed up of this sort of thing from China – It’s odd how the Great Firewall of China doesn’t stop hacking attempts from within the country…..