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Bots are accessing external Forms

Forms Security

Updated February 16, 2016

asked on February 11, 2016 • Show version history

I am working on a situation where there are multiple external Forms being attacked by bots. We are seeing that the bots are accessing these forms and submitting them. Even though recaptcha and honey pot is enabled these bots are able to get around this. At this point we are blocking the IP addresses manually as they come in. The problem is that blocking the IP will work for a day or two and then the same requests keep coming in. I looked up these IP addresses in the logs and found that they are not the normal bingbot or googlebot. These bots are coming from the same city as the client is located. Has anyone had experience with bots acessing there external Forms? What security measures have you been able to activate that stopped these bots?

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replied on February 11, 2016

that's interesting. how could a bot get around recaptcha? Maybe because its not secured. Anyways, In addition to recaptcha and honeypot. You could use your own hidden form field and javascript to enable and disable submission. Or maybe use that hidden field to determine if submission is legitimate.

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replied on February 11, 2016 • Show version history

If it is from the same city as the client, the client may be able to contact the internet service provider and let them know about it in case someone is abusing their service. Another thing to think about would be that some browsers allow you to install plugins that let the end user act like a bot even though it really isn't.

I have used a plugin that is mentioned above for Search Engine Optimization reasons as you can see sites how the search engines see them.

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