Reply To: Anyone else getting spam floods lately?

[Pike]

To be fair, yeah, I’ve seen that too. Usually comes in ugly little waves, not constant. On a couple WP sites it was the dumb combo of open registrations + some half-broken anti-spam plugin doing basically nothing. One site kept getting hit through the login/register stuff even after I cleaned the comments, so it wasn’t just “random junk,” it was clearly a bot loop. I’d check whether anything changed recently — plugin update, form plugin, membership stuff, even a theme update if it touches forms. Also worth looking at whether the spam is all from the same IP ranges / countries or just sprayed everywhere. If it’s the same pattern, it’s usually a bot swarm and not some mystery. Annoying part is you fix it and they come right back the next day like they paid rent.