Title: Spambot attack
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Spambot attack

 *  [SciPsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scipsy/)
 * (@scipsy)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambot-attack/)
 * I am using SI Captcha 2.7.6.4. I just noticed that 88 spam messages were posted
   to my blog. I have tested the captcha interface and it seems to be working correctly.
   I think that the spambots are looking into the DOM to find what the value of 
   the captcha is supposed to be and exploit the hidden values such as:
 * <input id=”si_code_com” name=”si_code_com” type=”hidden” value=”T4t8QKfJ6cwMUt3S”/
   >
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 * Last reply from: [SciPsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scipsy/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spambot-attack/)
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