Now-a-days Brute force attacks to servers/websites are frequent. Brute force attack is generally a password guessing technique. It is a type of attack in which trying every possible combination of characters or data in order to find the decrypted message. A brute force guarantees finding the key – it’s trying every possible combination and does not rely on any potentially incomplete dictionaries or lists of possible keys.

cPHulk  Brute force Protection is an inbuilt protection used in WHM for preventing brute force attack. cPHulk Brute force Protection  will detect and will block continuous failed login IP address.

cPHulk is a brute force protection system developed by the cPanel team and is exclusive to cPanel / WHM control panels. It has been integrated with cPanel version 11. With cPHulk, you can set a threshold for authentication attempts on services like POP3, cPanel, WHM, FTP, etc. After a certain amount of attempts, the attacker will no longer be able to authenticate

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Pyxsoft antimalware Plugin for cPanel/WHM protects your server from attacker scripts such as c99shell, r57shell, ANIShell, and hundreds more. It is a real-time Anti Malware for cPanel/WHM. Attackers can take control of your servers or can damage your customer’s data by uploading one of these scripts.

Pyxsoft antimalware plugin works to protects your server in two ways:

1. Protecting from the six server’s entrance

• SQL Injection
• Legitimate Access (SSH, cPanel etc)
• Web Forms
• FTP
• Brute Force Attacks
• Installed Trojans or shells

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