{"id":255,"date":"2006-05-03T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=255"},"modified":"2006-09-02T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T14:32:50","slug":"automated-blog-spammer-at-653925154","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Automated Blog Spammer at &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently fending off an automated blog Spammer originating from IP address 65.39.251.54. It appears to be using the WordPress &#8220;wp-trackback.php&#8221; as it&#8217;s vector. I have sent email to the hosting service and the whois holder for this IP range. But no luck yet. I am currently being hit every  2 minutes, which isn&#8217;t yet a Denial of Service, but it is coming close.<\/p>\n<p>Update: This spammer now has changed the address to 216.195.47.248 It&#8217;s the same Linux system as before, just another address. <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Now a regular spammer at 69.31.32.5 <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently fending off an automated blog Spammer originating from IP address 65.39.251.54. It appears to be using the WordPress &#8220;wp-trackback.php&#8221; as it&#8217;s vector. I have sent email to the hosting service and the whois holder for this IP<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=255\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Automated Blog Spammer at &#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,2,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-general-it-issues","category-internet","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}