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Originally Posted by tfto
Block all the countries/IP ranges, whose traffic is useless. China. Russia. All of Africa. Brazil. Most of Asia. That's where I've seen where most of the bots come from. All that traffic is totally useless and they are fishing for files to exploite.
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The majority are USA connections. I’m always leery of blocking too many IPs or countries as it can lag the server at times. Checking each IP as they land with fifty bots landing at once can drag down too much. At least it was that way ten years ago before I left.
They’re fishing but for Wordpress I use as few plugins as possible. The newer ones i ignore for a while but even tried and tested old ones can be compromised. I only have a basic install and will change the login page right now.