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The list we had this morning was actually bigger than that. Thanks for reporting!
These are mostly very sophisticated bots and it's a plague at the moment on companies, businesses, and community sites.
We have been interviewing "bot mitigation" services recently to determine the best company to meet our needs. We will be implementing something to help prevent this type of vandalism for 2018.
These are mostly very sophisticated bots and it's a plague at the moment on companies, businesses, and community sites.
We have been interviewing "bot mitigation" services recently to determine the best company to meet our needs. We will be implementing something to help prevent this type of vandalism for 2018.
This is an attack of Chinese bots
Anthony.
Well-Known Member
Maybe add a recaptcha for post creation, takes 2 seconds for humans (us) to do and can be just that little bit harder for the bots.
Believe it or not, we have recaptcha during the signup process as well as email account verification. These bots actually are groups of bots that work in concert with one another for all of these tasks.
We Admins were in several bot mitigation demonstrations last week and it really opened our eyes as to how prolific and sophisticated they are these days. I was a developer for the banking industry for many years and I am fairly experienced with security and breach prevention protocols. These new gen bots are incredibly capable.
We will get a new service to eliminate as much of this as is humanly possible shortly after the 1st of the year.
Hey guys, I know that you know, but this everyday spamming all over the forum is becoming irritating... Really.
@Daria_WapEmpire ; a cost to be paid and need to be accepted when someone become famous is it not ? Just a thought...
Regarding spam post like @T J Tutor pointed out many times, we are on with them and keep blocking. The more they attack smarter our forum becomes.
Regarding spam post like @T J Tutor pointed out many times, we are on with them and keep blocking. The more they attack smarter our forum becomes.
Absolutely understood, still feels like it's becoming only worse
You are CORRECT! They usually tend to stack up after 10PM EST and continue through 10AM EST. We eliminate all those that attempt to stack up through the day, but we have only a couple of Mods that work on the other side of the planet while we here in the states are asleep.
We have just two more bot mitigation companies to interview and then we will implementing one of them.
We feel your pain with this issue and we also apologize for not having a solution in place sooner. It's only over the past four months where it has truly become as unmanageable as it is now.
We will either pay a service, or add a person, specifically to resolve this issue over the next couple of weeks.
Graybeard
Well-Known Member
I don't have the server logs but there should be some similarities. IP 'C' blocks or User-Agent strings ...
Google Proxy in Chrome is another issue to consider.
As mentioned above the character set used is Chinese that should not be that hard to filter in PHP (xenforo)
How to remove chinese characters in a string
View attachment 12457
Only the English words will be in the post. Making posting in Chinese a total waste of time
Perhaps, they will just go away
**You could also do preg_match {Han} and generate an error unknown message -- in Han Chinese >:0)
Maybe, I can use this eventually myself ...
Graybeard, Jan 18, 2018
Google Proxy in Chrome is another issue to consider.
As mentioned above the character set used is Chinese that should not be that hard to filter in PHP (xenforo)
How to remove chinese characters in a string
View attachment 12457
Only the English words will be in the post. Making posting in Chinese a total waste of time
Perhaps, they will just go away
**You could also do preg_match {Han} and generate an error unknown message -- in Han Chinese >:0)
Maybe, I can use this eventually myself ...
Graybeard, Jan 18, 2018
We have eliminated the Asian spams. Have not seen a report on them in a couple of months now.
We implemented something similar @Graybeard ., as well as a few other measures.
We implemented something similar @Graybeard ., as well as a few other measures.
MillionDollarAffMarketing
Member
Most mornings I see a lot of 1-post health spam related threads that always reference supplement4us, healthcaresupchat, healthyourder, nutritionfit, etc....
Looks to be at least 10 right now.
Looks to be at least 10 right now.
MillionDollarAffMarketing
Member
Maybe a bad idea, but making post #1 pending approval. These spammers don't really post past the first post.
Correct! Hadn't thought about the http//: for the thread titles, just sent that off to my developer.
The nutra stuff is difficult due to the nature of our content. If we restrict too many phrase, it causes loads of posting errors. This is a work in progress. The Mods are on it when they see them. We will have a solution for this at some point soon.
