I’ve seen a dramatic increase in blog comment spam in the last few months. Though I don’t have exact numbers, I’d guess I’ve received as much in the last two months as I did in the previous ten. The disturbing part, though, is that they’re finally starting to get past the Akismet spam filter!
It appears to be primarily one adult website using a slew of URLs and IP addresses (a botnet of hijacked machines judging by their wide range). Fortunately, there’s still a distinct pattern in their otherwise random URLs that can be blocked with WordPress’s basic comment black list. Hopefully that will be enough to keep me from having to moderate all comments.
del.icio.us/mbotos
