Reply To: Spam bots back again?

[axelrowan]

Yeah, I’d still treat it like a path issue before anything “bot swarm” dramatic. If it kicked off right after the plugin update, that’s usually the giveaway. One registration endpoint, one form action, one API route getting abused, and suddenly it looks like the whole site went to hell. Seen that more than once. I’d check logs for the exact URL they’re hitting and whether it’s the same payload over and over. If it’s all the same junk with slight variations, that’s not some clever new wave, it’s just a noisy script finding an easy opening.