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Mitigating Denial of Service attacks to WordPress xmlrpc

I have attracted attention, apparently. My website is under a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack by a botnet for the last week. I am flattered, of course, but I could live without a DDOS, frankly. The requests go to xmlrpc.php every second or two from a different IP address from around the world: POST ...

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