By honolua3
I’m in one hell of a pickle. I am completely new to all of this. I’m using digital ocean to host my social engine website. We hired a “programmer” to build the site for us and set everything up. As it turns out, he actually knew less than me. Recently I’ve been experiencing what I believe to be a SSH Brute Force attack. My site keeps crashing because of failed login attempts from random emails and IP’s. I created a Digital Ocean support ticket but all I got was tutorials and step by step guides on how to set up SSH keys and stuff like that. I followed everything, i’m just very confused and the attacks are still happening. How do I stop this? I’m using my console from my Digital Ocean droplet but apparently that’s wrong? I think I downloaded OpenSSH but i’m not sure how to access it. Please…any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Hi, is this a WordPress site or another popular app? It’s fairly common for bots to do brute force login attempts on every website they can find. So, it’s unlikely to be a targeted attack against your site.
Even if you know your passwords are secure, since you’re noticing memory consumption issues as a result, you probably want to block these attacks. You could try one of these tools to block brute force attacks on WordPress. Some of those, like CloudFlare, are useful even if you’re not using WordPress.
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