Hacker NewsApr 17

288,493 Requests – How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force from a Weird Cache Ratio

https://marcindudek.dev/blog/xmlrpc-brute-force-cache-rate/

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288,493 Requests in 24 Hours — How I Spotted an XML-RPC Brute Force via Cache Rate

A 0.8% Cloudflare cache ratio led me to a single Singapore IP flooding a WordPress site with 288k xmlrpc.php requests. Detection, vector, and two-layer mitigation.