WordPress login brute-force detected by Fail2Ban in plesk-wordpress jail
Brute-Force
Web App Attack
Anonymous
Large-scale coordinated botnet (6M+ IPs). Ordered by Alexander Pen'kov (alexander-pen-kov-7b41aa6a/Shursky [yordim|LIS|MOW]): Retaliation after theft; Attacker: Mikhail Smirnov (mikhail-smirnov-79830323/Aidan [MOW]): Employed by Angara Technologies G ...
show moreLarge-scale coordinated botnet (6M+ IPs). Ordered by Alexander Pen'kov (alexander-pen-kov-7b41aa6a/Shursky [yordim|LIS|MOW]): Retaliation after theft; Attacker: Mikhail Smirnov (mikhail-smirnov-79830323/Aidan [MOW]): Employed by Angara Technologies Group | Attack Signature Blocked: /brands/shopby/manufacturer-lifesize-crestron-vmware-lsi-aruba_networks-haivision-xyz.html?rating=6 | UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 | (Magento Site)
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Malicious web request: probing for secrets, traversal or a known exploit path | method: POST | path: /xmlrpc.php | ua: WordPress.com; https://wordpress.com | 2026-09-16 01:30 UTC
Hacking
Web App Attack
Anonymous
Bot / scanning and/or hacking attempts: POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.1
Brute-force login attempts against a WordPress site (repeated POST requests to wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php) against a production server. Observed on 1 day(s) between 2026-08-27 and 2026-08-27 (UTC). Sample request: POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/2.0