Way back last year, I wrote about how one of my sites was under attack by some kind of zombie robot traffic – all without referrers, all reporting IE browsers, from all over the world, just coming and coming and coming, until almost two months later on the nose, the attack stopped, as mysteriously as it started.
Well guess what, boys and girls – THEY'RE BAAAAACK!
On November 12, 2013, the same site that was hit before started showing a huge increase in direct traffic. It was, on the one hand, very similar to the previous attack, and on the other hand, there were some important differences this time around.