Increase of spam in last 2 weeks

  • Resolved cweb

    (@calebweb)


    3 years, 4 months ago

    There really isn’t just one website that is having issues with more spam in the last 2-3 weeks. We keep changing the quiz to try to stop them, but that only last a day or two. Most of the email addresses have a .ru prefix, but they keep boasting that have a captcha program or something.

    Below is what they send.

    `XEvil 5.0 automatically solve most kind of captchas,
    Including such type of captchas: ReCaptcha v.2, ReCaptcha-3, Hotmail (Microsoft), Google, Solve Media, BitcoinFaucet, Steam, +12000
    + hCaptcha supported in new XEvil 6.0! Just search for XEvil 6.0 in YouTube

    Interested? Just google XEvil 6.0
    P.S. Free XEvil Demo is available !

    Also, there is a huge discount available for purchase until 30th July: -30%!
    Stand-alone full license of XEvil price is Just 59 USD

    <<I removed their web adress here>>

    Check new video in YouTube:
    “XEvil 6.0 <Beta>1] + XRumer multhithreading hCaptcha test”`

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter cweb

    (@calebweb)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Had to end up disabling the form on one account due to the amount of spam being submitted on the form. The strange part is I removed the form from the page and the spam still kept coming through.

    iterando

    (@iterando)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Did you were able to solve it? I’m getting the same!!

    Thread Starter cweb

    (@calebweb)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Sadly, I have not been able to resolve anything. The only thing I have been able to do so far is totally deactivate this form plugin because hCaptcha no longer works as designed.

    andrewbraun

    (@andrewbraun)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    I noticed they were all coming from the same 1-3 IP addresses and blocked them from the site. No more spam for now–at least until they rotate IPs 😀

    Thread Starter cweb

    (@calebweb)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    The IP block does last for a while, but it doesn’t take long for them to send from another. A better solution would be for the hCaptcha to have the hole plugged. It’s been 2 weeks since the original post, so hopefully someone from hCaptcha will find a proper solution.

    Robin Labadie

    (@robin-labadie)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Same issue for me. Spam has been increasing highly as you can see on this screenshot of the Trash folder of my mailbox:
    https://cloud.lrob.fr/s/dooXN8NnAo9CH2C/preview

    Same kind of signatures in some of them (but not all) :

    P.S. XEvil 6.0 est le meilleur solveur de captcha au monde!

    “XEvil 6.0 1] + XRumer multhithreading hCaptcha test”

    Bots are getting too strong for hCaptcha. I’m seriously considering going back to “Google evil” ReCaptcha…

    zebrinny

    (@zebrinny)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    I have been getting the same across a number of websites. I contacted hCaptcha about a week or so ago and they said they were deploying new images. I followed up and they instead decided to try to upsell me on a corporate subscription.

    Clearly I have no confidence that would work, even if it was an option.

    They seem to have zero interesting fixing this issue, so I think ill have to go back to google, which is a massive pain since I just changed over to hCaptcha for the superior performance and no tracking!

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by zebrinny.
    Plugin Author hcaptcha

    (@hcaptcha)

    3 years, 4 months ago

    Hello, this issue was related to a few specific challenges, which have now been removed. You should see spam going back down to zero.

    rinart73

    (@rinart73)

    3 years, 3 months ago

    I’m still getting bunch of spam with the latests versions of Contact Form 7 and hCaptcha. XEvil, porn, money making bots.
    I had to install an extra plugin that would block messages based on some string matches.
    Please tell me which data I need to provide to help to track down the source of the issue.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by rinart73.
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    fredroo

    (@fredroo)

    3 years, 3 months ago

    Last weeks hackers bypass Hcaptcha and send emails by contact form 7

    Thread Starter cweb

    (@calebweb)

    3 years, 3 months ago

    We reactivated the plugin on the site that had the most issues, and so far it appears to be working to keep the spam out.

    northman86

    (@northman86)

    3 years, 3 months ago

    Hi @hcaptcha , we are still experiencing lots of spam on our contact form, which is protected (or should be) by hCaptcha. I added a couple of examples, butt we are receiving more than 30 messages per day similar to these.

    Is there anything we can do to stop this? We started using hCaptcha about a year ago because reCaptha wasn’t blocking all spam anymore.

    Thank you for your reply!

    [spam expamples removed hy moderator. Let’s not give these folks a wider audience. Also, this plugin is a captcha plugin, not a spam filter, so the actual content of the spam is not relevant.]

    ziarauwolf

    (@ziarauwolf)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi @hcaptcha,
    For me this issue has started getting really bad in mid August. Please do something. I’m receiving more than 20 messages a day for each of my sites. I would love to stay with hCaptcha since I love the lack of tracking, but this is not working.
    Thank you for your help.

    Thread Starter cweb

    (@calebweb)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    We cannot verify if this issue was resolved or not. We ended up using alternative methods to block spam because hCaptcha was no longer reliable.

    fredroo

    (@fredroo)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    in my case the problem is AMP version

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