Spammers might be using something similar to the IPfuck Firefox/Chrome extension, which fakes an IP address instead of allowing the real IP to be recorded, not sure how we can defend against that sort of thing at present.
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:25:42 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Off topic: Wiki spammer is using spoofed IP > addresses??? > > The IP address belongs to CANTV Servicios which I have seen a LOT of spam > from recently > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Al <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am surprised to see that a spammer is spoofing his IP address. I got > > some spam from 200.90.74.226 - "226" is out of range for IPs and so isn't > > even a valid IP address. I confirmed that the number is not a wiki > > username and the apache log shows the same IP. It appears maybe the > > spammer's script has a bug and not range-checking the generated numbers > > which made it obvious that the IP is spoofed; otherwise I would have never > > noticed. > > > > I thought IP spoofing was a fairly sophisticated tactic and didn't expect > > to see a common wiki spammer using it, or am I wrong? I'm also surprised > > apache even allowed the connection, much less the Amazon AWS firewall. Am > > I missing something? > > > > Al > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
