Spambot huge attack

wollastoni · Post by **wollastoni** » Sat May 28, 2022 9:22 am

Hello

I have a huge spambot attack on my forum : more than 300 accounts created during the night, hundreds of posts...
My forum is : https://forum.insectnet.com/

I have blocked registration and delete these accounts.

How can I reinforce human verification strongly without validating account one by one ?

warmweer · Post by **warmweer** » Sat May 28, 2022 10:15 am

wollastoni wrote: ↑Sat May 28, 2022 9:22 am ...
How can I reinforce human verification strongly without validating account one by one ?

By using a proper Q&A for registration, a question to which the answer can't be found by a simple internet search (and relate it to your board subject).

Post by **Mick** » Sat May 28, 2022 10:45 am

Using the NRU in conjunction with the Q&A usually sorts the blighters out.

Post by **stevemaury** » Sat May 28, 2022 6:19 pm

See How to clean up a board hit by spam for some suggestions.

wollastoni · Post by **wollastoni** » Sun May 29, 2022 10:05 am

Thank you all, no more bots since the Q&A introduction.

And the "Prune User" tool was perfect to delete these 300 bots and their post in one click.