Reply To: Spam wave again on the forum?

Honestly, yeah, same here. It’s not “your side” unless you’ve got one of those ancient signup forms still basically wide open. Usually when it comes in this stupidly fast, it’s either a recycled bot list or some dumb little gap they found in the registration flow and started hammering it. I’d check logs before I’d bother guessing though — if it’s the same IP ranges / user agents / timing pattern, it’s just a wave. If it’s all over the place, then somebody’s typically relaying through junk and you get to play whack-a-mole for a while. Also, if the posts are coming from brand new accounts and they’re all doing the same link dump pattern, that’s not random. That’s automation. Same crap, different day.