BlogEngage a social bookmarking website dedicated to bloggers and their topics would seem to have had their defenses down and become the target of an Autopligg bot attack. The weakness is that BlogEngage are using the standard pligg captcha method which is easily bypassed and has been broken for some time. Several spam stories have already been promoted to the BlogEngage published section in quick succession.
October 23rd, 2008 | Pligg, Pligg Sites | Lincoln | 5 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "autopligg"
AutoPligg: Behind The Scenes Of The Pligg Spam Tool
After we revealed the existence of an Automated Pligg spam tool titled AutoPligg yesterday an good samaritan simply going by the name "sorry" contacted us. Your probably thinking what did this user called sorry have to say, well nothing really?. He did however provide us with a login for the AutoPligg forums as all registrations need to be approved, and It would be downright rude not to have a look at some of the threads concerning AutoPligg wouldn't it?.
July 29th, 2008 | Pligg | Lincoln | 5 comments | ContinuedAutoPligg Spam Tool: Pligg Spam Just Got A Whole Lot Worse
If you have read any of our previous articles on Pligg Spam you will no doubt already be aware that Pligg has had more than it's fair share of spam related problems in the past. Pligg webmasters now face a potentially devastating new threat in the guise of an fully automated Pligg Submission and Voting Spam Tool titled AutoPligg from syndk8.net. Whether you currently own or are simply pondering starting your very own pligg website you will want to read this article.
July 28th, 2008 | Pligg | Lincoln | 32 comments | Continued