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I got a comment with the subject line "Marsians ready to atack! nobody help us" and the body "MESSAGE" at 5:17 AM this morning (on my previous post, a small note about Ruby-Quiz), from an IP address that's at the top of the list of proxies at proxylist.blogspot.com.
Googling on that phrase produces a bunch of hits, most of which have been taken down by now, and which seem to be pharmaceutical spam. They appear to have taken advantage of a bug tracking system on a .gov site to post their full ads as attachments to bug reports, and they then post links to the attachment in the comment spam. Innovative little buggers, even if they couldn't configure their engine properly for the spam run that hit my LJ.
I wonder if large bugzilla installations are going to have to deal with becoming unwitting ad-hosts to spammers in the future, and if this will have the effect of making bug submission a moderated process, where newly submitted bugs aren't generally visible until a human being approves them as not being spam.
Update: They tried again, on the same post, with "MESSAGE" as the body again, and the subject "New explanation of pharmacy".
Googling on that phrase produces a bunch of hits, most of which have been taken down by now, and which seem to be pharmaceutical spam. They appear to have taken advantage of a bug tracking system on a .gov site to post their full ads as attachments to bug reports, and they then post links to the attachment in the comment spam. Innovative little buggers, even if they couldn't configure their engine properly for the spam run that hit my LJ.
I wonder if large bugzilla installations are going to have to deal with becoming unwitting ad-hosts to spammers in the future, and if this will have the effect of making bug submission a moderated process, where newly submitted bugs aren't generally visible until a human being approves them as not being spam.
Update: They tried again, on the same post, with "MESSAGE" as the body again, and the subject "New explanation of pharmacy".