REAL CASES
These attacks happened on real sites. Names anonymized, metrics real. Useful for understanding what actually happens day-to-day, and what difference good defenses make.
Case 01 · April 2026
A dental practice with custom management portal discovers Saturday morning that its system is down. Server returns encrypted files and a README demanding bitcoin.
Entry vector: publicly-accessible .env on the dev environment exposing DB credentials. Attacker reached phpMyAdmin (also open), uploaded PHP shell to /uploads/, escalated privileges and encrypted the entire Plesk subscription filesystem.
~6 hours from initial breach to full encryption. Admin noticed when the site started returning HTTP 500 errors en masse.
HOW NUDAYOSH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED IT
The scanner detects public .env and exposed phpMyAdmin on the very first scan (~30 seconds). With the plugin installed, the PHP shell uploaded to /uploads/ would have been moved to quarantine automatically within milliseconds, before it could execute. The whole attack chain — from entry to encryption — would have stopped at step 1.
Case 02 · May 2026
Wellness center with WordPress + WooCommerce booking. One day they start noticing slow page loads. The cause: a distributed botnet trying admin passwords.
| Metric | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| Failed logins/week | 4,732 | 38 |
| IPs in blocklist | 0 | 847 |
| wp-login response time | ~2.4s | ~180ms |
| CPU peak | 86% | 12% |
THE LESSON
An attacker doesn't need to be sophisticated to hurt you. A "dumb" botnet of 847 free IPs can degrade your site to unusable. Without auto-mitigation this becomes an urgent call to your developer on a Friday afternoon. With auto-mitigation it's just another line in your weekly digest.
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