More on Trackback Spam
James Joyner was hit as well as did Kathy Kinsely who also offers some advise on the subject.
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I was hit last night around midnight CST; noticed a bunch of messages in my mailbox. I just hooked up a little bit of code that looked for the words they were using and automatically dumped any trackback with the words in it into my IP address blacklist. Apparently it was a distributed spamming attack using malware (a worm/trojan/something), since it came from a hundred or so IP addresses.
Comment by Chris Lawrence — Tuesday, February 1, 2024 @ 1:36 pm
I updated and added a file people can download. If, and only if, they understand .htaccess redirects should they use it…
I also added a link to a WP plugin that does something similar.
Comment by Kathy K — Tuesday, February 1, 2024 @ 5:11 pm