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Self-Hosted Anti-Spam in 2026: Why Proof-of-Work CAPTCHAs Are Not Enough and What On-Prem Protection Needs
TL;DR. Self-hosted protection is having its moment: Cap has 8,013 GitHub stars after 21 months, ALTCHA’s npm packages are downloaded 1.49 million times a month, Anubis collected 23,427 stars in a year and a half. Every one of these tools runs on your server and keeps your users’ data at home. Every one of them…
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Update: Anti-Spam Service Restored After Temporary Disruption
We experienced a service disruption in our Anti-Spam service, detected on September 9, 2026, at 16:00 (UTC+0). The issue was caused by the bot-detector script. To resolve the problem, the script was temporarily disabled. What you may have noticed: The issue has been fully resolved. The disruption lasted approximately 21 hours, and the service is…
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WordPress Plugins Usage Report: What Admins Actually Open, August 2026
TL;DR: Install counts tell you what is downloaded, not what is used. We looked at 36,207 WordPress admin page views collected over seven days across sites running our Security plugin, and counted which plugin screens administrators actually opened. The ranking looks nothing like the install charts: WP All Import, a plugin with 100,000 installs, accounts…
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EventPrime Spam Protection: How to Stop Fake Attendee Registrations and Bot Bookings
TL;DR: To stop spam in EventPrime, combine its built-in Google reCAPTCHA with a cloud anti-spam filter. CleanTalk Anti-Spam checks every attendee registration and event booking in the background and blocks spam bots invisibly – no CAPTCHA, no puzzles, no checkboxes – while protecting comments, registrations and WooCommerce on the same site. reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha and Turnstile…
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Moving Frontend scanner Online
Hello CleanTalk Users, We are moving the Frontend Malware Scanner out of the WordPress Security plugin (SPBCT) and integrating it into our Online Malware scanner. To eliminate duplicate functionality across apps, this scanner will no longer be included directly within the SPBCT plugin. This update brings several key improvements: All changes will be completed by…
