15/04/2013
iPage Clients via CGD:
Do you have a WordPress account with us? If so, we wanted to let you know about an attack on WordPress sites that started earlier this week, what we've done to combat it, and what you can do to protect yourself.
On Tuesday, a widespread "brute force" attack against WordPress started impacting sites across the internet. This attack is leveraging a botnet, which looks to have more than one hundred thousand different computers at its disposal. Its intent is very simple: to find and compromise WordPress sites with simple passwords, likely to use them later to distribute malware (and further increase the size of the botnet).
Over the past few days, we've made a number of changes to our network and infrastructure designed to mitigate the impact of this attack on our customers' websites
For those of you who have been impacted by these attacks, or our attempts to combat them, we do apologize for any service disruption. We also apologize for a longer-than-normal response time over the last few days while we've had "all hands on deck" addressing this issue. We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Sincerely,
CGD via The iPage Team.
