newlynerfed
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Or at least I don't think I was hacked. I see no extra accounts and my permalinks are fine. I updated to 2.8.4 as soon as it was released.
However, in the space of four minutes, I received 64 spam comments. (Thank you, Akismet!) Normally I get, on average, one a day at most. I'm wondering if this is related to the attack and if I have anything to be concerned about. Seems to me like a spam gift basket sent by a pissed off hacker who couldn't get into my blog, but maybe there is no correlation and it's just a coincidence.
Curious if anyone has had similar experiences today with spam comments. Thanks.
cyberws
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Yeah. If your install is tight and the latest build I wouldn't worry about it. It may just be your turn. Our sites have patterns too. Spam always but at times it gets worse and slows down for a bit then picks back up. The eb and flow of the spammers.
newlynerfed
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
It's the latest build, but I'm not sure what constitutes "tight."
You're surely right. Just thought it was funny that I got blasted with spam the same day of the attacks.
The best plugin I've found to stop comment spam is the Tan Tan Noodles plugin.
Get it, try it, and I bet it'll work.
