https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23343
--- Comment #17 from billinghurst <billinghu...@gmail.com> 2012-11-17 07:56:40 UTC --- There is an increasing amount of XFF type spambot accounts taking place into WMF wikis at this time. And increasingly they are going to South American http configured services, and an example of today being 177.87.193.134 I don't believe that this is simply coincidence, and more factor this into a planned means to attack. As it is usually coming from another insecure proxy, yes, it is not that we have more open means of attack. However, as it is all serious spambots intent on breaking into our wiki in their fruitless attempts to spam. It is ceaseless and we have already seen previous attacks, and often we have already blocked the IP due to direct attacks. We know that they will be back, and we have a series of defences that are not able to prevent this, and this is now a known hole that has had a request for a fix for 18 months. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
