Other folks are watching us some for good reasons, others perhaps not.

  Foreign investors?

 We local realtors are being watched overseas often than we like to admit.

More than likely you're looking at bots not hackers

I haven't had a problem and never open an attachment that looks suspicious or I am not expecting 

I am very cautious about what I open, and malwarebytes seems to do a pretty good job! Wonder what the results for AR would look like!

We should all start creating false information and data. That will teach the hackers to look elsewhere.

This would be a good blog topic for you.

Good to know.

That is interesting

I don't open anything unless I know what it is....and I'm sure I've lost a few things from deleting...

You can block traffic from certain IP addresses if you like.  But if they're hackers, they'll just mask where the traffic originates.

I have a plugin that blocks those.  I get a report on the top 10 blocks. All from other countries. 

Although those IPs could be masked...

Dig a little deeper.

How long are they  stay and what did they look at?

Be aware China and Russia have their own Internet and search engines that send out bots to index (block) as they see fit.

Few real estate agents are important enough to have an actual hacker stop by. However, hacking the franchise and following the bread crumbs to affiliate agents would be of interest. That is where the bad stuff happens, at the weakest link with is rarely the personal PC.

Sometimes the weakest link it the one who clicks that attachment.

Interesting, thanks.

I've had those russian visitors for years... delete, delete, delete.

Good morning Joseph.  I believe Les & Sarah Oswald nailed this one. That will teach them a thing or two

I will check.

Hi Joseph, I have quite a bit of traffic coming from Germany as I also have buyers from there. It's not always a bad thing when you see someone from some exotic place land on your web page!

Don't open anything unless we're are absolutely 10% confident.  That's the rule around my office.

That is a good point, so went to look at my analytics, and have Israel and United Kingdom, but 99% in USA.

I see more foreign countries on mine also now.

Good information. So I guess I need to also write posts in Russian, German and Chinese?

Always good to check the backend. 

Sooooo what's the question?

So far this year our non-bot, non-USA visitors have Canada leading with 0.55%.  Many of the Canadians find us when looking for Vancouver in their search term but don't catch that we are in Washington State, and not British Columbia.  

If you use Wordpress I recommend:

IQBlockCountry (I have it set to block anything outside of the US and France (for aHrefs)).

WordFence Firewall.  Allows you to create filters to block those that get past the IQBlockCountry.  I check my logs frequently and I do get US based hack attempts, usually one or two a week.  They get automatically banned by the firewall and then I permanently ban them.

WordFence also released a new scanning site today, GravityScan.com, that will scan your site for free.  You need to register an account and verify you own the site (easy to do) to know the bad stuff it finds.

Joseph Domino That's why they call it the World Wide Web. Be careful and vigilant.

The "funny" thing is that it can be made to appear coming from when it is not

That is interesting, i know my "form" to contact for more info gets loaded with spam requests at time. 

Joseph,

We have had international traffic from the time we set up our website.  I don't think there is anything wrong with that, because people worldwide are interested in real estate.  We have hackers in the US also.  A

Very cautious about what I open. If in doubt, delete it out!

thanks for the update

I hold caution and a healthy sense of cynicism pretty close.     

We back up all our data.

I'd suggest to make notes every month and see how those %s are changing. 

Joseph Domino - good to learn who our enemies are...lol!

<<< -- NOT surprised about Germany.

We do not open anything that I even think is questionable.

It is pretty scarey to think what someone on the other side of the world can do to us Joseph Domino.

Yes I have also scanned that info & wondered about it.