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How We Diagnosed and Stopped a WordPress CPU Flood on LiteSpeed
Everyone talks about DDoS attacks.

Most of the time, that’s not what’s actually happening.

What we dealt with here was something far more common and far more dangerous if misconfigured: distributed vulnerability scanning triggering PHP execution on every request.

This post breaks down exactly what happened, how we diagnosed it, and the ...

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05/05/2026