thanks for the heads up. That entity just signed up for mine as well and I was wondering what the deal was. I kept checking back to see if he/she was going to post pithy comments about my writings, but nothing so far.

Yep, same happened on my blog… thanks for the heads up.

No problem. The same Google search now returns 27 results, including this site. The new bot is on the march.

hey peepl, the very same thing happened to two blogs i’m running also, might be time to actuall read this..
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/wordpress-security-whitepaper/

I just got hit by this account as well. At least I was notified that the account was created. When I checked my user list it wasn’t there. Is there a backdoor I should be worried about?

Thanks for the heads up - your post was exactly what I was looking for.

I recieved a new user registration email alert from alina77vere9uk
so, I did a google search and I found you guys. Thanks for the heads up. The dirty biatch has been deleted
Yes I also have a word press blog.

Newdiver, I haven’t ever seen these bots do that. My guess is that the registration attempt was botched somehow, but that’s not even an educated guess. Gladbeast, thanks for the link to the whitepaper. Everybody needs to be up on best security practices these days…

fe true.. i was poring over my stats for the time that the user was created and theres no obvious trace at the time they were created, was looking for an ip, the only ip i could find remotely connected was our own machine ip, i run three blogs on the same server and both that were open received user registartions, the other live blog is closed, and two test blogs are closed also, my first thought was that our home machine was compromised, but now i think i was just being paranoid, this is definitely a warning to us wordpress peeps, i’d agree that there is a takedown in progress, i’d refer people back to your post of sept last year, the M.O. is too similar to be coincidental,lets keep our pants ON, keep it up, edd

Thanks for your post. The same user name was used to create an account on my blog. It have since been deleted.

[...] Apparently another wordpress user had the same encounter and this wasn’t even the user’s first time. “It looks like whoever created the spambot known as adol77dai51 is at it again; a new out-of-the-blue, non-posting user account “alina77vere9uk@gmail.com” just got created today, with an email address of alina77vere@gmail.com. ” - The Cubelodyte [...]

You can add me to the list. And I am very grateful for all the reliable and useful information here - I deleted the account as soon as I read the advice here. I’m hooked - and you’re linked at my site so my friends will know where to go for trustworthy help. Thanks to all these commentators, too. Appreciate all your help.

[...] Google came to my rescue, a quick search sent me in the direction of So The Very Rediculous and The Lair of the Cubelodyte blogs. Both basically stating that this is spam tastic! Seems that I’m not the only [...]

UPDATE: The bot has registered itself again. I’m thinking that perhaps a captcha for new user registration might be a good idea.

Yep, yep. It got me too. I was so excited–a person registered, whoo hoo! Oh well. Now deleted and gone. And I downloaded the pdf gladbeast recommended. I’ll get on that tomorrow. Thanks for the good advice!

[...] is a spammer and Im not the only one.  After googling, I found this blog, and this one, both have mentioned this account.  So - its deleted and hopefully the world is now spinning [...]

I just turned on “An administrator must always approve the comment”…Call me a control freak.

Thanks for this. alina77vere registered a while ago. I was a bit confused when I got no posts, so thought I’d have a search. I’ll delete the account - thanks