Hacked Home Routers are Attacking WP Sites

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Last week, while creating the Wordfence monthly attack report, Wordfence noticed that Algeria had moved from position 60 in their “Top Attacking Countries” list to position 24. That was a big jump and they were curious why Algeria had climbed the attack rankings so rapidly.

What they discovered on closer examination is that over 10,000 IP addresses in Algeria were attacking WordPress websites in March. Most IPs were only launching between 50 and 1000 attacks during the entire month.

Is your home router safe?

Read more at https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/04/home-router...


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Wow, that is worrisome. I will have to check on my level of security. Thank you for sharing this.

Wayne

thanks for sharing

You're welcome, Sylvia!

Appreciate your posting this, Glen. One can never be complacent. ~Jude

Thanks, Jude. :)

Glen - My router is safe. Very interesting post. Thanks for sharing.

Mine, too! I changed passwords.

Thank you for sharing this Glen.
Jerome

You are welcome, Jerome. :)

Thank you for the info. Something made my entire hard drive crash in March. Had to get new everything.

I had a hard drive crash last year. I learned to back up everything to an external hard drive. That saved a lot of headaches.

Thank you Glen

You are very welcome, Michael. :)

MANY thanks for the heads up, Glen...

You are most welcome, Arthur!

God I truely would love to see hackers getting hacked. I got hacked from a location of about 5 miles away from my home.found out that my computer was full of malware which cost me two hundred dollars to have it removed last month. The incident was actually brought to my attention by google. They informed that my email account had been hacked. I needed to go on my google account and get reverified and make a new password. Needless to say I was none to happy. And nothing was done about the hacker. Lol you just got to love that. Right?

I feel for you, Sid. I had one of my websites hacked 3 times because of the terrible server security by the web host.

Thanks for sharing, Glen

You are very welcome,Roger. Thanks for reading.

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