It must be that time of year again.  There seems to be heightened activity of script-driven attacks on servers.  Most of these attacks are attempted brute-force password cracks of WordPress accounts.

Here’s a list of countries (by ISO country code) that attacks have come on one of my servers from in the last 48 hours.

      
      2  AR 
      1  BE 
      4  BR 
    278  CN 
      1  CO 
      1  CZ 
      1  DE 
      1  DO 
      2  ES 
      3  FR 
      2  ID 
      3  IN 
      1  IQ 
      1  IT 
      5  KR 
      1  KZ 
      1  MD 
      1  MX 
      1  NL 
      1  RU 
      7  TW 
      1  UA 
      2  US 
      3  VN 

That’s a disappointing pattern.