Hello, same situation on my Server. 2000 users in a few minutes. Same IP.
Best Regards, Marcel Am 10.04.2012 23:03, schrieb Claudiu Curcă: > > Hello, > > > > Tonight I've noticed an increase in server traffic and once I checked > stuff aut I saw that some few thousand users were created from a > russian IP address (178.47.4.86). The users were automatically created > with the username XXyyyyyyZZ, where (XX and ZZ are numerica land yyyyy > are random words). According to logs, all these users flooded the user > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>, probably as some sort of > childish revenge or something similar. > > > > Lately, I've been firewalling entire classes of IPs from the Russian > Federation because of these automated registrations, although only now > logs have shown actual flooding. > > > > With all respect to free and boundless communication, I am taking the > caution of blocking each and every IP block from the Russian > Federation, since I do not want (nor have to, for that matter) stay > and guard the server from automated registrations (as a fun fact, out > of all the former automated registrations detected, 105 of them, 104 > were from Russia). > > > > I know it's harsh, but I encourage the rest of the admins to be > vigilant and take hard countermeasures against such abuse. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Claudiu Curcă -- coderollers.com > > >
