There are news reports of new Wordpress XML-PRC brute force attacks being seen in the wild. The SANS Internet Storm Center also has a Diary entry showing similar data. We have captured similar attacks in our web honeypots so we wanted to share more data with the community.
more here...........http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2014/07/honeypot-alert-wordpress-xml-rpc-brute-force-scanning.html
more here...........http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2014/07/honeypot-alert-wordpress-xml-rpc-brute-force-scanning.html