Weee! A new wordpress attack in the wild ... or is this an attack? Or something worse? SPAM mebbe?

Sitting here, drinking coffee, preparing for the short ride into work (probably have to stop off at Meijer to pick up some turnovers … mmmmm turnovers!) when I noticed this on my wordpress logs tail

Hey … someone is trying to hack us. Cool. But what does this say?

Ok, let me use a quickie script to handle this for me …

<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $hex="\xd0\xa1\xd0\xbf\xd0\xb0\xd1\x81\xd0\xb8\xd0\xb1\xd0\xbe, \xd0\xbf\xd0\xbe ... \xd1\x87\xd1\x82\xd0\xbe \xd0\xbf\xd0\xbe\xd1\x87\xd0\xb5\xd1\x80\xd0\xbf\xd0\xbd\xd1\x83\xd1\x82\xd1\x8c";
printf "%s\n",$hex;
</code>

Cool. What does it print out?

Hmmm… my Russian’s not that good. I know … what … 5 words? And one of my former colleagues, who is Russian, upon hearing me (mis)pronounce a word I though I knew, told me to stick with English … Ok, lets ask Google Translate.

(ROTFLMAO!) Ok. I am getting spammed. Not hacked. Look folks, if I and my readers can’t even read the spam …. I mean, c’mon now. Whats next … spam in sudoku puzzles? Solve this and get your free ED meds? Geez…