Spambot surge at Tangents
I don't suppose anyone has any advice on how to deal with a surge of Spambots over at my website. I'm getting a significant increase in traffic, but it's from a bot that keeps signing up people to my WordPress account. I keep deleting them (and have put out a warning on the site that people wishing to sign up should e-mail me directly) and the bloody things haven't even tried to post stuff to my comments fields, so I have no idea why the bot is doing this... or why it's ongoing.
I'd almost call it a DDoS attack except it's only generating around 800+ visits to my site each day (and 200+ new user requests which I delete) so if it IS a DDoS it's a tremendously LAME one. (Slightly worrisome is how each day the number of hits grows slowly.)
I'm getting readings from several DNS numbers where the majority of the "attack" is coming from, but I'm not sure how to go about blocking those numbers (and I suspect the "bot" is switching DNSes periodically).
So. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? This is rather annoying, as it is artificially inflating my traffic rather than letting me have a legitimate idea of who is visiting my site and from where.
Rob H.
I'd almost call it a DDoS attack except it's only generating around 800+ visits to my site each day (and 200+ new user requests which I delete) so if it IS a DDoS it's a tremendously LAME one. (Slightly worrisome is how each day the number of hits grows slowly.)
I'm getting readings from several DNS numbers where the majority of the "attack" is coming from, but I'm not sure how to go about blocking those numbers (and I suspect the "bot" is switching DNSes periodically).
So. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions? This is rather annoying, as it is artificially inflating my traffic rather than letting me have a legitimate idea of who is visiting my site and from where.
Rob H.