Bot attack

[adrianlondon]

Have you seen any spam recently?

Nope. Thanks!

 

[goldmac2006]

I’m not seeing any and always report when I do.

Same here.

 

[KaliYoni]

Have you seen any spam recently?

At the times of day I look at MR, spam has been much less common since the attack around US Thanksgiving.

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if more attacks occur [attack volumes greatly increase] in the two or three days following Christmas Day (to scam people trying to set up new tech stuff) and around New Year's Day (to steal from people trying to deal with delays during a peak travel period).

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Here's a NYT story that shows why these criminals spam places like MR. They want their bogus phone numbers to show up in search results and generative AI answers.

David Welles, a retired lawyer, had been struggling with his new iPad for hours when he tried to call tech support.

But instead of dialing Microsoft to help him connect his email, the phone number he found on Google put him in touch with cybercriminals.

The smooth talking scammer who answered called himself Alex and built a rapport with Mr. Welles, assuring him that he could resolve his tech headaches. Before too long, Mr. Welles downloaded remote access software, both on his iPhone and his laptop, allowing the scammer to burrow deep inside of his devices, where he stored his username and passwords on his hard drive.

Tech Support Scammers Stole $85,000 From Him. His Bank Declined to Refund Him.

A retired lawyer lost the money in a tech support scam, a type of online fraud that is surging. Citibank said it couldn’t recover the funds, which criminals wired from inside his account.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Boyd01]

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if more attacks occur in the two or three days following Christmas Day

To be clear.... the attacks have not stopped; they just don't make it far enough to be viewed by the public now. 🙂

 

[goldmac2006]

To be clear.... the attacks have not stopped; they just don't make it far enough to be viewed by the public now. 🙂

But I’ll let you know if I rly see one… especially the 99 cent Liquid Glass words on it 😉🙌

 

[retta283]

Seems like there has been an influx of bot attacks lately, is there just a massive increase in volume currently? Some of the ones I've been seeing lately are completely wild and detached from anything you'd expect to see on a site like MacRumors.

Hopefully it is alright to post this for posterity because this is the funniest one I've ever seen:

 

[boppin]

I'm on it... have been deleting/banning spammers non-stop for over an hour now and can barely keep ahead of it. We will need to tweak the filters, they have been very effective until now. This is one of the worst attacks I've seen so far. 😱

Hi

That explains why CloudFlare is almost every moment checking if you are a human or not.

Thanks a lot for this information!