Dries Buytaert

Mysterious spike in comment spam spotted

Last week, our servers at Mollom have been actively tracking a spike in spam traffic across the 30,000 sites that we actively protect. And when I say "spike", I should say "three-fold increase". Fortunately, Mollom blocked all the pesky comment spam. As promptly as it came, the spike suddenly went away. Something is going on out there ...

The Y-axis shows the number of requests per second. The X-axis shows the day of the month. The graph is for one Mollom server only.

— Dries Buytaert

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