FabianNL

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Are you sure it's not xmlrpc attacks ? I think I have found the cause of the problems. I've disabled the ModSecurity OWASP package about 36 hours ago and since then I've seen no high loads anymore....

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• FabianNL
• December 21, 2016 19:40
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Different platforms, WordPress (about 75%), Magento and some CakePHP sites.

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• FabianNL
• December 20, 2016 15:03
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3. High CPU load and lots of '/usr/sbin/httpd -k start processes'

Hello, It's normal to see "/usr/sbin/httpd -k start" processes owned by the "nobody" user. That's the standard username Apache runs as. The following thread is a good place to start if you want to...

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• FabianNL
• December 20, 2016 11:49
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