Spam from 192.168 network on wordpress.com network???

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  kfsone · Member · Apr 17, 2008 at 11:10 pm

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  Erh, I was just looking at my Akismet filter. I have a bunch of spams from “d%%s_test%%%@hotmail.com”, what’s unusual is that several of the spams are logged with an IP address of 192.168.x.x, e.g.

  life insurance | (email visible only to moderators and staff) | lifeinsurance.iMegastores.com#0 | IP: 192.168.4.80
  life insurance | (email visible only to moderators and staff) | lifeinsurance.iMegastores.com#0 | IP: 192.168.2.4

  (spam text not included).

  while others are real looking IPs

  whole life insurance | (email visible only to moderators and staff) | fun.to/wholelifeinsurance#0 | IP: 66.246.82.114

  This seems to suggest something on the internal wordpress.com network has been botnetted, or that someone at WordPress is testing something?

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  mark · Member · Apr 17, 2008 at 11:18 pm

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  No botnetted :)

  There was a brief period where some backend stuff had to changed and for that time the wrong information was attached.
  The spam did come from outside.

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  kfsone · Member · Apr 17, 2008 at 11:22 pm

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  Thanks for the quick reply :)