CoffeeGeekJan 10, 2025

I'm confused about something and hope some tech-savvy folks here can answer:

Why would some spam bot all of a sudden flood the signups for our newsletter on CoffeeGeek? Today we've had well over 500 signups -- all yahoo accounts and all obviously fake - via our website's signup form.

I don't get it. AFAIK, they can't "hack" anything to gain our mailing list, etc.

Show threadIsaac MJan 10, 2025
@coffeegeek Maybe they are testing out some type of hacking process/scripts that would be used for a different attack / different site later on?
Show threadCoffeeGeek
@ossa I'm gobsmaked how they get by the captcha. I guess the V3 captcha from google isn't working as well as it should.
Jan 10, 2025 at 11:01pmWeb
Show threadHeatherJan 11, 2025

@coffeegeek
Yikes!
A wild guess, but there's a chance it may not be about you, maybe they are working at breaking the captcha (machine learning?).
I'm that case turning off subscription for awhile may get them to go somewhere else.
Or I'm totally wrong, and it is about you, in which case you may also want to turn them off temporarily while waiting out the attack.

Good luck.

Show threadEndarethJan 11, 2025
@coffeegeek @ossa Bots can generally do at least as well as humans for solving captchas these days, just take a look at everything that shows up at https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bot+solving+captcha+v3&t=ffip&ia=web
bot solving captcha v3 at DuckDuckGo

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