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Forum Spambots
Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 5:11 pm
by Collector
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 Recently, on certain boards using outdated phpBB, such as the GK board, a number of users have been having to use the CAPTCHA to validate their login, as if there had been too many failed login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.
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 12:16 am
by Rath Darkblade
Not for me... yet. *looks around warily*
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:06 am
by BBP
PHP is under attack too. Zappa.com is suffering. And its members of course.
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:18 am
by QuestCollector
No problems for me.
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:33 pm
by Rudy
No issues encountered
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:17 pm
by Qbix
haven't heard about problems with vogons.
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:25 pm
by Tawmis
I am a forum spambot some would say!
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:18 pm
by Collector
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
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:50 pm
by Collector
Tawmis wrote:I am a forum spambot some would say!
I thought you wanted to forget that incident.
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 3:53 pm
by BBP
Looks like a spammer got on GK4 today.
Re: Forum Spambots
Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:05 pm
by Collector
BBP wrote:Looks like a spammer got on GK4 today.
Banned