bitch ass russian bots goin after /xmlrpc.php

gotta love constant brute force attacks by pos russian federation bots using the good ol /xmlrpc.php

anyone know how to deal with the pesky low level "hackers" that annoy every website on earth

nvm just disabled it

high mike said:

gotta love constant brute force attacks by pos russian federation bots using the good ol /xmlrpc.php

anyone know how to deal with the pesky low level "hackers" that annoy every website on earth

Click to expand...

Since there is no real solution (can't find any ideas/suggestions from here), I came up with an unique solution:

I use redirection WP plugin and configure /xmlrpc.php to redirect /xmlrpc.php to Google search link/instagram link. See below.

Today's Redirection log:
Date Source URL Referrer / User Agent IP
March 19, 2019
12:38 pm /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 18.218.143.26
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
12:27 pm /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 74.208.89.119
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
12:12 pm /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 23.95.129.130
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
12:05 pm /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 5.134.8.21
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
11:47 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 75.119.200.122
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
11:41 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 51.77.110.215
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
11:20 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 111.90.144.200
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
11:06 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 52.14.196.17
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
11:06 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 167.99.206.238
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
10:44 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 109.95.152.82
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
10:39 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 3.82.120.254
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
10:26 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 162.243.159.39
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
10:20 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 144.217.192.207
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
10:05 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 124.158.13.108
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
10:03 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 211.149.229.39
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
9:51 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 79.137.32.55
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
9:49 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 139.59.28.199
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
4:27 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 205.251.153.112
Filter by IP
March 19, 2019
1:34 am /xmlrpc.php
https://www.google.com/search?q=mysite.com

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 172.10.56.2
Filter by IP
March 18, 2019
10:45 pm /xmlrpc.php
https://www.instagram.com/mysite/

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:62.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/62.0 -
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It may result in banning these bot/IM market's IPs - but it's not my problem.

I received private messages from others on how to create the 301 redirect link. Here is the info here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=you...word2-1stwordhide+&url=www.yourdomainname.com

and

https://www.bing.com/search?q=yourd...word2-1stwordhide+&url=www.yourdomainname.com

every other week.

It works well on my multi-sites - free traffic. It's like knocking Gooooogle/Binnnnnnng doors..to let them know the sites are there.