Advanced Bad Bot Attack Tactics for WordPress

When you are just starting a website, chances are you won’t have to deal with too many bad bots. As soon as your sites get a bit of attention, your will end up getting traffic from malicious bots and scrapers. We have already covered a bunch of plugins that can help you stop these attacks. This infographic from WPSolver covers 6 ways to identify malicious bots and block them.

Using a honeypot is the most common way but you can use real-time threat data to block malicious IPs and user-agents before they reach your website. Thanks to machine learning, it is now much easier to identify non-human request sequences.