[wp-forums] Answer to why WordFence got so many plugin reviews rcently

[Jan Dembowski]

Thanks for finding that and it's good to know why. It concerned me, it did.
;)

I think it's a little spammy too but it's not the first successful review
campaign.

Jan Dembowski
On Feb 10, 2014 4:01 PM, "Drew" <xoodrew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got the same message sent to our meetup group a little while ago. And I've
> definitely been seeing a heavy influx of firewall notifications today, so
> it isn't inaccurate. But definitely a little spammy :/
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Ipstenu the Half-Elf
> <ipstenu at halfelf.org>wrote:
>
> > Jan noticed this earlier: http:// pic.twitter.com/Q4DquiYNRT
> >
> > Now I know why! They sent this email (and yes, it linked every single
> time
> > to the review page):
> >
> > Dear WordPress Publisher,
> >
> > If you would like to stop receiving WordPress security alerts and product
> > updates from Wordfence, you can click here.  You subscribed to this list
> > via the Wordfence security plugin for WordPress.  If you find this alert
> > helpful, please give us a 5 star rating on WordPress.org.
> >
> > As of 11am eastern time this morning we are monitoring the largest
> > distributed brute force attack on WordPress installations that we've seen
> > to date. The real-time attack map on www.wordfence.com became so busy
> > that we've had to throttle the amount of traffic we show down to 4% of
> > actual traffic.
> >
> > A brute force attack is when an attacker tries many times to guess your
> > username password combination by repeatedly sending login attempts. A
> > distributed brute force attack is when an attacker uses a large number of
> > machines spread around the internet to do this in order to circumvent any
> > blocking mechanisms you have in place.
> >
> > If you're using the free or paid version of Wordfence you should have the
> > option to "Participate in the real-time Wordfence security network" under
> > 'Other options' enabled. This will immediately block any attack
> originating
> > from an IP address that has attacked other WordPress sites using
> Wordfence.
> > This is an effective defense against this kind of attack.
> >
> > We recommend that until this passes you monitor your WordPress websites
> > closely for unusual activity including logins, account creation or
> changes
> > to the public facing website.
> >
> > If you found this alert helpful, please give us a 5 star rating on
> > WordPress.org on the right of the page.
> >
> > Mark Maunder
> > Wordfence Creator & Feedjit Inc. CEO.
> >
> > PS: If you aren't already a member you can subscribe to our WordPress
> > Security and Product Updates mailing list here. You're welcome to
> republish
> > this email in part or in full provided you mention that the source
> > iswww.wordfence.com. If you would like to get Wordfence for your
> > WordPress website, simply go to your "Plugin" menu, click "add new" and
> > search for "wordfence".
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