On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 8:56 AM James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
That ticket (and that patch) appear to be about the flood of email subscriptions and rate limiting those subscriptions and nothing specifically targeting the admin interface. I'm not sure how it's causing the message (whether that's intentional, a side effect of the subscription limit or something entirely different).
As a sidenote: this activity has been going on for a while, we have detected in our systems as well, seems someone found a new way to abuse her botnet. I cannot quite see any purpose for it, apart from vandalism.
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