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Apocalypse Meow’s main focus is addressing WordPress security issues related to user accounts and logins. This includes things like:
<ul>
<li>Brute-force login-in protection;</li>
<li>Customizable password strength requirements;</li>
<li>XML-RPC access controls;</li>
<li>Account access alerts;</li>
<li>Searchable access logs (including failed login attempts and temporary bans);</li>
<li>User enumeration prevention;</li>
<li>Registration SPAM protection;</li>
<li>Miscellaneous Core and template options to make targeted hacks more difficult;</li>
<li>Anonymize/scrub leaky remote request headers;</li>
</ul>
Security is an admittedly technical subject, but Apocalypse Meow strives to help educate “normal” users about the nature of common web attacks, mitigation techniques, etc. Every option contains detailed explanations and links to external resources with additional information.
Knowledge is power!
<h3>Requirements</h3>
Due to the advanced nature of some of the plugin features, there are a few additional server requirements beyond what WordPress itself requires:
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.4+.</li>
<li>PHP 7.4 or later.</li>
<li>PHP extensions: (bcmath or gmp), date, filter, json, pcre.</li>
<li><code>CREATE</code> and <code>DROP</code> MySQL grants.</li>
<li>Single-site Installs (i.e. Multi-Site is not supported).</li>
</ul>
Please note: it is not safe to run WordPress atop a version of PHP that has reached its <a href="http://php.net/supported-versions.php" rel="nofollow ugc">End of Life</a>. Future releases of this plugin might, out of necessity, drop support for old, unmaintained versions of PHP. To ensure you continue to receive plugin updates, bug fixes, and new features, just make sure PHP is kept up-to-date. 🙂
<h3>Log Monitoring</h3>
Some robots are so dumb they’ll continue trying to submit credentials even after the login form is replaced, wasting system resources and clogging up the log-in history table. One way to mitigate this is to use a server-side log-monitoring program like <a href="http://www.fail2ban.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fail2Ban</a> or <a href="https://ossec.github.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">OSSEC</a> to ban users via the firewall.
Apocalypse Meow produces a 403 error when a banned user requests the login form. Your log-monitoring rule should therefore look for repeated 403 responses to <code>wp-login.php</code>. Additionally, some robots are unable to follow redirects; if your login form requires SSL, you should also ban repeated 301/302 responses to catch those fools.
If you have enabled user enumeration protection with the <code>die()</code> option, requests for <code>?author=X</code> will produce a 400 response code which can be similarly tracked.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
When active, this plugin retains security logs of every sign-in attempt made to the CMS backend. This information — including the end user’s public IP address, username, and the status of his or her attempt — is used to help prevent unauthorized system access and maintain Quality of Service for all site visitors.
This information resides fully on the hosting web site and is not shared with any third parties.
Data retention is entirely up to the site operator, but by default old records are automatically removed after 90 days.
Please note: Apocalypse Meow DOES NOT integrate with any WordPress GDPR “Personal Data” features. (Selective erasure of audit logs would undermine the security mechanisms provided by this plugin. Haha.)

Apocalypse Meow

Works nicely to protect from brute force logins, and the developer is fantastic!

great protection

A simple, light-weight collection of tools to harden WordPress security and help mitigate common types of attacks.

matveevartem

Virusdie

ONE-CLICK WEBSITE SECURITY WITH VIRUSDIE WORDPRESS PLUGIN
<h3>Welcome to the most anticipated website security plugin – Virusdie WordPress Plugin!</h3>
Managing website security like malware scanning and removal, website hardening, patch management, real-time website protection against online attacks, and blacklist monitoring – is an automatic pleasure and we can prove it!
<ul>
<li>More than 3 million connected websites!</li>
<li>99.87% malware and vulnerabilities detection rate. The best detection rate in the industry. Virusdie detects as many threats as possible, including new kinds of threats</li>
<li>No false positives. False positives rate — less than 0.0002%. You can always be sure that your antivirus won’t mislead you)</li>
<li>Website cleanup in one click. The industry’s safest automatic cleanup procedures ensure that your site will remain stable after cleanup (automatic malware removal)</li>
<li>Real-time website protection against attacks by Website Firewall (protection against bad bots, DoS, XSS, SQL injections, suspicious uploads and activities, etc.)</li>
<li>Virtual and real patch management (website hardening). It makes a virtual patch automatically or updates your vulnerable plug-ins and other site components in seconds, minimizing the risk of future problems.</li>
<li>Blacklist monitoring and blacklisting tool that help you save time for unblacklisting by an automated un-blacklist wizard.</li>
<li>Smooth onboarding: only dashboard with all you need. Manage Virusdie tools in a click! Your website is in full view: entire web-security status on one page.</li>
<li>Friendly and responsive Virusdie support team. We are welcome to help you and answer your questions.</li>
</ul>
To avoid interruptions to your business, you need to keep your site free of viruses. As they say, shit happens — but when it does, you have to clean it up, and fast. Today, Virusdie makes it possible to resolve 100% of the security issues most businesses face, either fully or partially automatically. We’ve taken powerful website security tools and made them friendly and automatic in WordPress plugin format. Now, you can scan, clean, and protect your site from a single panel with just one click of the mouse. What’s more, you won’t need any help to use Virusdie. This means that you’ll save tons of time while keeping your site’s security under your control!
<h4>Free plan feature list:</h4>
1. Antivirus:
<ol>
<li>No extreme server CPU load while scanning!</li>
<li>Instant malware database update. The antivirus database is automatically updated in the background, so you won’t even have to think about doing anything manually to be sure you can eliminate as many viruses and vulnerabilities as possible.</li>
<li>Scans once a month:
<ul>
<li>Scanning website files for malware: all website files (not just CMS’ files), themes, plugins, PHP, JS, HTML, images, files with no type, any binary files and system files, .htaccess, and files with custom types and archives.</li>
<li>Scanning website database. Scan posts and comments for bad URLs and suspicious content, scan posts and comments for malware and injections.</li>
<li>Scanning for malware types (threats): malware, malicious redirects, Trojans, backdoors, shell scripts, malicious codes, bad URLs and SEO spam, defaces, code injections, browser coin miners.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Detailed scan reports with malware and threats description and recommendations.</li>
<li>Add files to the exclusion list to ignore them in future scans.</li>
</ol>
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2. WAF:
<ol>
<li>Don’t slow down your website while you’re using WAF!</li>
<li>Instant Firewall rules database update.</li>
<li>Bad requests, hacks attempts and attacks detection.</li>
</ol>
Find out more about <a href="https://virusdie.com/tools/#6page" rel="nofollow ugc">Virusdie Firewall</a>
3. Patch Management (website hardening)
<ol>
<li>Instant vulnerabilities database update.</li>
<li>Check site (files, themes, plugins and components) for known security vulnerabilities and alerts you if found.</li>
<li>Scan once a month.</li>
</ol>
Find out more about <a href="https://virusdie.com/tools/#4rdPage" rel="nofollow ugc">Virusdie Patch Manager</a>
4. Blacklists Monitoring
<ol>
<li>Checking your website more than 60+ blacklists automatically.</li>
<li>One-click to un-blacklist.</li>
</ol>
Find out more about <a href="https://virusdie.com/tools/#7page" rel="nofollow ugc">Virusdie Blacklist Monitoring</a>
<h4>Premium plan feature list:</h4>
(In addition to the free plan’ feature list)
1. Antivirus:
<ol>
<li>Daily scans and Unlimited scans.</li>
<li>Automatic malware removal: The safest in the industry automatic malware removal – Your website continues to run stably after the automated cleanup.</li>
<li>Unlimited site cleanups.</li>
<li>File editor.</li>
<li>Malicious code highlighting in the file editor.</li>
<li>Pre-cleanup file backups.</li>
<li>Exclusion list to add files and ignore them in future scans.</li>
</ol>
Find out more about <a href="https://virusdie.com/tools/#3rdPage" rel="nofollow ugc">Virusdie Antivirus</a>
1. Firewall:
<ol>
<li>Basic bad request protection.</li>
<li>XSS and SQL injection protection.</li>
<li>DoS-attacks protection.</li>
<li>Brute force protection by limiting login attempts.</li>
<li>Content scraping protection.</li>
<li>Malicious uploads prevention.</li>
<li>IP whitelisting/blacklisting.</li>
<li>URL blocking.</li>
<li>Country blocking.</li>
<li>History of blocked requests.</li>
<li>Make custom rules to block requests based by: IP Range, Hostname, User Agent and Referrer.</li>
<li>Make custom rules generic type for POST/GET requests.</li>
</ol>
Find out more about <a href="https://virusdie.com/tools/#6page" rel="nofollow ugc">Virusdie Firewall</a>
Patch Management:
<ol>
<li>Daily and Unlimited scans.</li>
<li>Automatic virtual vulnerability patching (website hardening).</li>
<li>Automatic real patch management.</li>
</ol>
Find out more about <a href="https://virusdie.com/tools/#4rdPage" rel="nofollow ugc">Virusdie Patch Manager</a>
<h4>Coming soon:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Teamwork: you will be able to share access to your site with your team. Simple and secure!</li>
<li>Website sharing. You’ll be able to share your website access with your digital agency who manage your website security – with one click!</li>
<li>Website insurance and security expert marketplace: for being confident that in the event of a complex website infection or damage to your site, getting help from third-party security experts to restore your site won’t cost you any more than the minimum cost in your insurance policy.</li>
<li>Firewall statistics and attack attempts reports will be available on the free tier plan! Keep your finger on the website pulse even for free!</li>
</ul>
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Virusdie | One-click website security

Malware scanning & removal, website hardening, patching vulnerabilities, real-time protection against online attacks, blacklist monitoring in a click!

Apocalypse Meow vs Virusdie | One-click website security