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No, I didn’t ban all of it – just a subset of IP addresses that have done nothing but attempt to spam the site.
Oh, wait… Not just spam – they’ve also tried to brute force passwords, but that’s as complicated an attack as they’ve done to date.
I was gonna play the cat and mouse game, but I just said to hell with it and blocked this:
5.188.210.0/24
That means 5.188.210.1 to 5.188.210.255 are banned. They can browse, but they can’t comment. Nope, they just want to spam (you regular folks don’t see it) their pay day loans and, curiously, a massage parlor – though that was an oddity and there was just one of ’em.
This is who they are:
https://rdpguard.com/free-whois.aspx?ip=5.188.210.0
More info:
https://bgp.he.net/net/5.188.210.0/24
And here:
https://bgp.he.net/net/5.188.210.0/24#_whois
I could be talked out of this move, but damned aren’t they annoying. I like to keep things cleaned up and they’re dropping in blog-spam and have made a few attempts (like 8 this month) to brute force their way in.
My goal is to be open about such things, where possible and when doing so doesn’t compromise security. I’d send the IP addresses a complaint, but I’m pretty confident that it won’t help – not even a little.
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