This morning I woke up to several website monitoring alarms going off. My websites were becoming intermittently unavailable due to extremely high server load (>190). It appears nicj.net had been under a WordPress comment-SPAM attack from thousands of IP addresses overnight. After a few hours of investigation, configuration changes and cleanup, I think I’ve resolved […] The post How to deal with a WordPress wp-comments-post.php SPAM attack first appeared on NicJ.net.
