In election season, this site gets a certain amount of hacker attention. It drives the usual attempts by hackers wanting to add my systems to their bot nets, AI scanners, and search bots into the background. This year it appears to be somewhat one sided. This year the Russian Federation are interested. Almost obsessed.
The summary of rejected behaviour over the last 7 days by one of the defence tools on the site. There is a distinct pattern.
I wonder if I should complain to the Russian ambassador about their inept technical intervention units.
The Chinese are also interested. But don’t get blocked for bad behaviour. They show up for their extremely dedicated reading habits over the last 7 days. It puts the kiwi readers in the shade.
Since the 15th October, there has been a marked decrease in the numbers of comments being automatically tagged as spam and summarily dumped. We’re now only doing that for a few hundred per day. It peaked at about 2300 per day at the end of September. There haven’t been any particular defence shifts over that period. Looks like another annoying botnet died or was diverted to a different set of tactics.
