• This admin account is presently the only user account running on the website. No one else has access to the login details except myself.
    The password is “very strong” – featuring capitalisation, numbers, word separators, etc. The username was changed from “admin” to something else less obvious and not connected to the domain name.
    I also have 2FA authentication setup, along with a trusted security plugin that has securely kept other websites that I run.
    WP, themes & plugins are up to date.

    Nevertheless, I get WP emails about the password being changed.
    Thinking my password was compromised, I changed it. I logged out of every other session. I even changed the user name.
    But the same issue persists.
    The security plugin logs will show several blocked attempts to access certain files. Those IPs are banned. Nonetheless, a few hours later, I get another WP email about the password being changed.
    Then I repeat the process of changing the password, etc.
    It has been an endless cycle.

    However, whoever is changing the password has not made any visible changes to the site. I also recently installed Sucuri as an additional measure, to give prompts whenever any changes are made on the backend by a logged in user.
    The only prompts I get are of changes I myself make while running maintenance. Sucuri (and my Security plugin) also scanned for malicious code & files, but both found nothing.

    What do you recommend that I should do to resolve this?
    I will greatly appreciate any help given!

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