Case Study
Bot Traffic Attack Case Study: Stopped Before Any Downtime
The Short Version A site we manage took a massive traffic surge one morning: many times its normal volume, all inside a single hour. It was a bot traffic attack. Nothing was broken yet, but that kind of flood takes a server down fast once it tips over. Our monitoring knows what normal looks like…
Card Testing Attack? How to Spot and Stop It on Your Store
TL;DR Card testing is a bot running stolen card numbers through your checkout to find out which ones still work. It is not trying to buy anything from you. The giveaway is a burst of declined orders with fake names, fake emails, and the same small charge amount hit over and over. Every declined attempt…
What a Real WordPress Site Attack Looks Like (And How We Stopped It)
Most articles about WordPress security talk in generalities: keep your plugins updated, use strong passwords, install a firewall. This post is different. This is a real WordPress site attack that hit one of our client sites on July 13, 2026, told with the actual numbers, the actual IP addresses, and the actual fixes we deployed…