“Nice blog, thanks for the info”
“Awesome site. Great job”
“You should take part in a contest for one of the best blogs on the web. I will recommend this site!”
I know you like flattering comments on your website. And I know you love to see many comments on each one of your posts (say you community participation). Who doesn’t, right? We love them too.
So we decided to take a closer look at the last 100,000 (well, 98,238 to be more exact) comments that were sent to the network of sites that we are monitoring. How much of them are spam? Who are the most annoying spammers? And things like that.
Comment SPAM Bad Neighborhood Analysis (2013-Mar)
We track and block a lot of comment SPAM via our WordPress plugin and our CloudProxy WAF. One thing we noticed is that the majority of the SPAM we detect come from the same “bad neighbors” (IP ranges that are known for sending a lot of SPAM).
We did a little query for the month of March (just in 23 days) and these are the top 20 networks used by comment Spammers:
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