Greetings community, 

Over last eight weeks a Tor exit that I operate has attracted more and more 
abuse reports and the VPS data centre is starting to lose their patience with 
the amount of tickets they open for each incident. 

Almost all of the abuse reports are relate to attempts to access wordpress 
blogs by exploiting wp-admin or other scripts, and the servers are protected by 
bitninja, abusix, spamcop etc to automatically send abuse complaint. I am now 
receiving average of 2-3 per week.

I have two questions. First question - is everyone getting this high amount of 
wordpress related attacks from exits? Second - are there recommended steps to 
take to reduce or prevent this kind of activity? 

Things I try so far: 
  - run exit on reduced policy (obviously not going to have an impact on abuse 
traffic but did make the data centre people happy for a while)
  - full security check on VPS including tripwire, clamav, lastcomm etc to 
assure provider that the VPS is not compromised
  - Tor port on server has website running explaining that this is a Tor exit 
and linking to more information
  - I have offered to work with ISP to change WHOIS to my email address, but 
they do not seem keen on it (some blacklists that the server is added to will 
also block the /16 of the IP range)
  - Block offended host on the firewall (as a last resort)

Thanks for any suggestions

Spiros

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