Over the past few days we have begun noticing several specific attack profiles against WordPress installations. This has been happening Internet wide from talking to other hosts and from general posts in public forums showing the same traffic. Due to the distributed nature of this attack, it is causing significant performance problems on some of our servers as dozens of WordPress sites are being attacked on the same server, at the same time.

We are activating Hardware firewall protection on affected servers to mitigate the attack which we found effective in blocking malicious traffic and keep the servers stable.

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One of the things I couldn’t do today was post newly-captured images, such as, last Friday’s pitch sent to McHenry County Sheriff’s Department employees that Cynthia Collado. That was the day after the deadline for RSVPing.