with the second try a real capcha is presented. When a new user tries to login without being active on the forum for some time, the first capcha goes wrong everytime.Īfter that a message is displayed with a link to the forum-rules or FAQ saying something like: "Sorry, but you should read our rules first."Ī Human especially a newbie would do that, and be thankful for the help. I think these two behaviors are clearly distinguishable by the time a user takes to do things, and what he does before login. Maybe he realizes that he's in the wrong area, and posts his problem again. He searches for something, and then creates a login to spill out Suggestion or something else that bothers him. This behavior has to be distinguished from a real newbie, he normally comes to the forum because he has a question, They usually create a new account, then try to post as many message as possible. In my opinion it's still the best, to track these by their behavior. If the duration is to short (for example 5 seconds), most likely it is a spam. Spammers including bots usually will copy/paste the spam and submit it quickly. One of the rule I know is duration to submit a comment. Spammers are lazy, they use automatic spam tools, one of the famous tool is: But as I said, most the spams are delivered by bots not human.
Honey pots aren't effective to prevent human spammers. If the field is being filled, then the comment will be discarded. Honey pot plugins work by adding a hidden field that human can't see but spam bots will tried to fill all the fields.
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But Bad Behavior is good for blocking hacking bots and hackers using free proxy visiting your site. Bad Behavior isn't very effective to prevent spams unless it is used along with other spam plugin. If I visit my sites using a fake IP (free proxy), I can't access my site's content, I'll only get a warning message. Now I only get 0 to 2 spams per year.īad Behavior works by comparing the visitor IP with its database and by analyzing the visitor delivery method as well. To prevent spam snaps from appearing in your Snapchat feed, Symantec recommends users change their Snapchat privacy settings to receive snaps from “My Friends” only and use caution when receiving unsolicited messages or friend requests.Before I use Bad Behavior + honey pot plugin, I got spams almost everyday. Scammers and spammers will always target new and popular apps-like Snapchat-as soon as they gain a large enough user base. The recent spam campaign targeting Snapchat users should not be surprising. Bitly users should follow Bitly API best practices to ensure the security of API keys.
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Users of the AddThis service should refer to this support article on how to secure API keys. Public exposure of API keys gives anybody the ability to compromise accounts and, in this case, create short URLs using other people's domains. Note from AddThis support page regarding API key safety Some of the brands affected used the AddThis social bookmarking service who recently stopped requiring users to reveal their API key in plain text as part of the AddThis website embed code. Bitly has confirmed that some spammers obtained Bitly API keys belonging to various brands. Symantec has been working closely with Bitly to investigate and shut down any spammer use of branded short URLs. Hidden behind the branded customized URLs are affiliate marketing links directing users to sign-up for adult webcam sites.
The following are some of the compromised branded short domains:
Well-known branded short domain directs users to spam Spammers have found a way to create their own links using branded short domains in order to entice users into a false sense of security. Spam bot using a familiar chat script on KikĪn interesting discovery from this campaign is the use of compromised custom URLs belonging to small websites and popular brands. Snapchat with a digital camera? It’s a trap!Īfter engaging these spam bots on Kik Messenger, this spam campaign is using a type of spam chat bot-script we discovered on Tinder last summer. Each of these spam messages includes a request to “Add my kik”, along with a specially crafted user name on the Kik instant messaging application for mobile devices.