Hello everybody,
I want to know your opinion on this. And I want to know if it's not just my brain acting up.
Was there a recent increase of forum spamming bot activity in the last few days?!
No, seriously. This week, on my own forum, I deleted more than 30 spamming threads. Before this week, I used to get probably only one or two per month.
On the forums I visit, not my own, I see about three spam threads per forum.
In an IRC channel, I've also asked other forum admins. They have seemed to realize this fact aswell.
The sad part is that I did a few IP traceroutes. A few come from Korea, one from Lithuania, a few from Russia and a few from USA residential ISPs. Could this be a next generation of botnets spawning? Instead of sending spam email, those bots will spam forums!
How can we fight against this? I think vB's captcha has been defeated. And most of the spam-fighting plugins don't work too well (I'm using them on my forum, but they do nothing)
Comments? Suggestions? Anything is welcome.
I want to know your opinion on this. And I want to know if it's not just my brain acting up.
Was there a recent increase of forum spamming bot activity in the last few days?!
No, seriously. This week, on my own forum, I deleted more than 30 spamming threads. Before this week, I used to get probably only one or two per month.
On the forums I visit, not my own, I see about three spam threads per forum.
In an IRC channel, I've also asked other forum admins. They have seemed to realize this fact aswell.
The sad part is that I did a few IP traceroutes. A few come from Korea, one from Lithuania, a few from Russia and a few from USA residential ISPs. Could this be a next generation of botnets spawning? Instead of sending spam email, those bots will spam forums!
How can we fight against this? I think vB's captcha has been defeated. And most of the spam-fighting plugins don't work too well (I'm using them on my forum, but they do nothing)
Comments? Suggestions? Anything is welcome.
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