Over the last couple days a huge threat and nuisance has evolved that is effecting nearly all web hosting providers. This brute force attack is being conducted by a large botnet consisting of thousands of unique IP addresses across the world.  The attacker is brute force attacking the WordPress administrative portals, using the username “admin” and trying thousands of passwords.

One of the concerns of an attack like this is that the attacker is using a relatively weak botnet of home PCs in order to build a much larger botnet of beefy servers in preparation for a future attack. These larger machines can cause much more damage in DDoS attacks because the servers have large network connections and are capable of generating significant amounts of traffic.… Read the rest