New DOS Technique: Massive Amounts of Blog Comment Spam
Over the past two days my sports handicapping blog has received an incredible amount of blog spam.
I’m not sure what the Akismet count was before this massive amount of blog comment spam started, but as of now it’s at 29,793. I suspect this is at least 20,000 more than what it was at a few days ago.
I’ve only noticed this activity on that specific blog, but I can’t help but wonder if anyone else is being targeted by these large networks of blog spammers. I have a script that shows the last 100 access requests to the website, and a majority of the requests are to my wp-comments-post.php file from a wide array of hosts.
I first noticed the activity when I received a lot of comments being held in moderation. They were links to various ring tone and other spammy services from EDU addresses, but even after marking a lot of them as SPAM they continued to make it through Akismet. As such, I simply filtered it into my blacklist and had them all sent to the SPAM bucket.
I have no idea what the posting rules these spammers have setup, but the requests don’t look they’re going to stop anytime soon, so I updated my template to rename the wp-comments-post.php file to i-hate-spam.php.
Anyone else seeing this type of activity from spamming networks posting EDU addresses for ring tones and other such goods?
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5 Comments so far »
HMTKSteve said
on April 26 2007 @ 5:10 am
I get over 1K spam comments every day sent my way. I even changed the comment file name as others have suggested!
Ryan J. Parker said
on April 26 2007 @ 10:01 am
That’s obviously made a big decrease for me too, Steve.
If only those morons would build a check to see if any comments are making it through, then we wouldn’t have this problem.
I guess if you’re going to spam you’re not going to be nice to the community at large.
Matt said
on April 26 2007 @ 2:00 pm
Whoa. 1K spam comms a day?? We get about 10. I hadn’t heard of changing the comments.php filename, but doesn’t sound like a big concern yet for us. I’ll have to keep that in mind though.
Robert Irizarry said
on April 28 2007 @ 1:03 pm
Interestingly enough, I’m getting more spam now that I’m on Wordpress than I ever did on Blogger! However, nothing has been getting through thanks to Spam Karma. That plugin is a life saver!
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