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flexagoontoday at 12:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Bots regularly try to bruteforce domain paths to find things like /wp-admin, bruteforcing subdomains isn't any more complicated


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jraphtoday at 12:42 PM

> Bots regularly try to bruteforce domain paths to find things like /wp-admin

Sure, when WordPress powers 45% of all websites, your odds to reach something by hitting /wp-admin are high.

The space of all the possible unknown subdomains is way bigger than a few well known paths you can attack.