Forum Spambots

Post by **Collector** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:11 pm

I read of a spambot attack on SMF forums that tries to do a brute force attack on existing accounts with weak passwords to spam with the hijacked accounts. Recently, on certain boards using outdated phpBB, such as the GK board, a number of users have been having to use the CAPTCHA to validate their login, as if there had been too many failed login attempts. I am wondering if there has been an attempt to hack phpBB board accounts, too. The default is to allow 3 failed login attempts before forcing a CAPTCHA or email response login. Please let me know if any of you have login issues on SHP.

Post by **Rath Darkblade** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:16 am

Not for me... yet. *looks around warily*

Post by **BBP** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:06 am

PHP is under attack too. Zappa.com is suffering. And its members of course.

Post by **QuestCollector** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:18 am

No problems for me.

Post by **Rudy** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:33 pm

No issues encountered

Post by **Qbix** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:17 pm

haven't heard about problems with vogons.

Post by **Tawmis** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:25 pm

I am a forum spambot some would say!

Post by **Collector** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:18 pm

Qbix wrote:haven't heard about problems with vogons.

Isn't VOGONS phpBB 2x? The boards I know of that have had this are early 3.x

Post by **Collector** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:50 pm

Tawmis wrote:I am a forum spambot some would say!

I thought you wanted to forget that incident.

Post by **BBP** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:53 pm

Looks like a spammer got on GK4 today.

Post by **Collector** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:05 pm

BBP wrote:Looks like a spammer got on GK4 today.

Banned

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