Reply To: Spam spikes after the last update?

[Nathan]

In my opinion, yeah, I’ve seen that too. Not a full-on flood, but enough that you notice it every day, which is always the annoying part. On a couple sites it’s been mostly signup junk, not so much comments, which makes me think it’s just some bot batch shifting around again rather than anything magical in the update. I’d still check whether the requests are coming from the same IPs / user agents as before. If it’s all new garbage, that’s one thing. If it’s the same old trash with a different timing, then it’s most likely just a wave. Also wouldn’t shock me if some plugin got a little looser after the update and made the forms easier to hit. Happens more than people want to admit.