WordPress Comment Spamming - Over 50% Contributed by Top 100 IP AddressesMay 29th, 2006 I briefly reviewed my corpus of 4569 comment spams in my Akismet queue. Of them over 53% of the spam has been contributed by Top 100 spamming IP addresses.
Enter Ethical Spammers; Is Spamming going Mainstream?November 28th, 2005 Imagine a pickpocket leaving a note in the pocket they have picked informing the victim that they are very sorry about picking their pocket and what he can do to rectify the situation. Neil found ethical spammers in his wiki (read about wiki spamming) who left a note after they spammed:
< !– We leave content intact.
What is comment spamming? Couple of interesting case studies.April 28th, 2005 Sometimes I find people evangelizing some religion through comment spamming. Is it spamming?
I think it is.
Understanding Context Aware Trackback Spamming: New Frontiers in Web SpammingJune 10th, 2005 Let's begin with an example. Name: Stanford scientists takes first step towards producing renewable source of insulin producing cells from brain-derived ...
"This site has nasty hidden script"February 1st, 2005 Yesterday I found some (around 20) irrelevant medical ads in my spam-trap :)
Today I got a comment:
"This site has --expletive deleted-- nasty hidden script (which prevents me from spamming)" - wrote some exasperated kiddie-comment-spammer in his comments. You bet!
It appears that the spammers have resorted to trackback spamming to get around captcha.
ContactThem Network Perfects Distributed SpammingMarch 3rd, 2008 I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template:
Hi,
We've seen your website at http://blog.taragana.com/ [Full URL here]
and we love it!
We see that your traffic rank is [######]
and your link popularity is [##]. Also, you have been online since [#/#/####].
Using Evite For SpammingJuly 21st, 2006 Normally we don't associate Evite requests with spamming. That trust has been broken.
New Spamming Technique: Yahoo! Messenger Spamming From MyfreecamhostNovember 5th, 2007 Either Yahoo! Messenger sponsors spammers (not that would surprise me) or Myfreecamhost has found a loophole in Yahoo Instant Messenger. I am daily receiving half a dozen, most likely automated, Yahoo instant messages from various random email id's on myfreecamhost.
Hunting Spammers: The Legal WayAugust 28th, 2005 Four Spammers down, hundreds to go. James R. Schaffer, Jeffrey A.
New techniques of spamming...July 28th, 2004 For quite sometime naive bayesian classifier based SPAMBayes filtered my emails very accurately with very few false positives. Recently however I have noticed few trends in spamming which are alarming in nature.
Spamming is a successful strategyMarch 23rd, 2005 According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages. One in ten users have bought products advertised in spams.
How Google Product / API Pages Can be SpammedJanuary 9th, 2008 Google dutifully provides a forum for each product / API they launch. They also graciously decided to display 3 recent articles from their forum on their highly ranked product page.
Spam Me Ye Comment Spammers!August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.
US computers again leader in worldwide spamming, followed by S. KoreaApril 7th, 2005 US has again achieved the dubious distinction of being responsible for maximum amount of spam (35%) with South Korea (25%) at second place. What is more interesting is:
According to Sophos more than 50% of all spam is sent from "zombie" PCs, computers that have been take over by hackers or virus writers.
Yahoo Spamming this Blog?July 8th, 2005 I received a strange comment (spam) from an user nicknamed John complimenting this blog. He provided his web address as www.yahoo.com and gave his email as john@yahoo.com.
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This is the new problem that the blog networks have to face. I have recently set up a blog network bp-blog.com as an idea of making money using user driven content and providing a share to the bloggers with the AdSense API. There are around 100 blogs there now. Almost all of them are spam. I found some blogs with the posts containing random text and deleted them. I found some blogs with nice articles without any links and I thought that the author is poor at writing articles. After some day I found another blog with same articles. I viewed the source of the page in the browser and I found that each post contains 10-20 invisible links (like ). Now I am manually deleting them and working on a plugin for wordpress mu to block comment as well as blog spam. I using a local database of black listed links, IPs, SURBL.org and ProjectHoneyPot.org to effectively block spam. Unfortunately that the links on my site are not listed in both the surbl.org and projecthoneypot.org. Hope my own database will evolve in time. I found your blog, while searching for WP Hooks documentation. I have to read lots of post in your blog. Hope those will be helpful to me.