Strange multiple hits from similar source

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  interissueforum · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 1:51 pm

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  I recently set up StatCounter and last night I must have gotten 35-40 hits from a series of similar IP addresses- all of which were some variation on the following:

  33.153.232.72.static.reverse.ltdomains.com (72.232.153.33)

  Other similar IPs showed variations on “wordpress admin”.

  I searched for “reverse ltdomains” on the internet and one of the pages that came up was a list of similar IPs named as malware. So I was wondering if this was some kind of hacking attempt.

  Does anyone know what this was? Very strange…

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 2:48 pm

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  We don’t have hacking issues here. That was probably just spam stuff.

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  interissueforum · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 7:05 pm

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  We don’t have hacking issues here??? Have you been reading all the entries in this forum today about different people whose websites were hacked?

  Anyway, I only got about 1 new spam comment in the last day. Interestingly, the WordPres stats didnt register this person/thing at all, while the StatCounter one did…

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 7:49 pm

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  Those blogs weren’t hacked. That’s the “drama” of the kiddies from the Club Penguin who pass around their logins and passwords and then claimed that they were hacked. Try doing a forum search and you’ll see what I mean.

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  interissueforum · Member · Jun 16, 2008 at 6:10 am

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  OK! Maybe you’re right… But still, 35-40 hits from one series of similar IPs seems strange doesnt it? Why would there be only 2-3 spam comments from all of that? Anyway I guess its not an urgent topic for the forum, since my site seems to be working OK…

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 16, 2008 at 7:05 am

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  Vivian IS right. Chewy is a notorious drama queen who pitches a fit in the forum quite regularly. It was the last day of school so no doubt s/he felt the absence of soap opera.

  It’s likely that your site got spidered by a search engine. That would account for the similar IPs. If you haven’t noticed any ill effects, it’s probably just that.

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  interissueforum · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 8:41 am

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  That’s pretty funny that there are drama queens in the wordpress forums.

  Search engine in an interesting explanation… Thanks for the tip!

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  deltafoxtrot · Member · Jun 17, 2008 at 4:40 pm

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  These IP address you posted belongs to the WordPress.com server farms. I don’t think that’s to worry about.