WordPress asleep, lion on the loose

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  slingword · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 6:49 am

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  While the wordpress staff is asleep at the wheel, and the entire staff is at a corporate retreat, there is a lion on the loose.

  I had a hit at my site, and so I followed the “referred by” link to here: (DON’T OPEN THIS SITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
  [URL REMOVED – Mark]
  (DON’T ENTER YOUR PASSWORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

  It’s a password fishing site. A login window which looks a lot like the wordpress login window appears, and a sucker (like me) fills it in as usual and, tada, they have your password.
  Luckily when the site did not provide me with anything, I realized I’d been had, and so I changed my password with no undesirable effects.

  WordPress: I know your conference is important, but total abandoning of support is ill advised……

  Slingword

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kardotim · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 8:36 am

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  The site you’ve indicated is running a self-hosted/installed version of WordPress (found at WordPress.org).

  To clear up any confusion, WordPress.com and WordPress.org are two different entities.
  http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  WordPress.org has complete support and documentation sites for self-hosted/installed versions of WordPress at:
  http://wordpress.org/support/
  http://codex.wordpress.org/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 8:39 am

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  @kardotim, I think what they are saying is that it showed up in their referrers links here in their blog stats.

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  kardotim · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 9:00 am

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  My mistake, Please report this matter. Click here

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  justjennifer · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 9:52 am

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  @kardotim Now I’m confused. You say that the blog mentioned above is not a WordPress.com blog, but then give us a link to a page to report spammy blogs hosted on WordPress.com?

  (And perhaps it would be wise to remove the link the OP posted above so that no one accidentally does click on it.)

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  mark · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 9:57 am

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  I commented on referers somewhere else.
  I will try and find the link.

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  justjennifer · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 10:09 am

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  Thanks Mark, here’s the thread about Spam Referrers.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/whats-up-with-all-the-spammy-referrers?replies=12

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 19, 2010 at 4:37 pm

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  “The lion is asleep?”

  Somebody hasn’t been reading the forum for the past two months, where dangerous spam referrers have been discussed daily.