SMF Hacked??

[letthemeatrest]

 
Why would anyone want to target the site?  Whats the point.  Unless its a competitor, what a waste of life to spend time spamming people (even if its just time taken to set up the bot).  Im at a loss. 

most bots are set up to simply scour the internet for any site that is vulnerable.... if it can go thru it will try; if it doesn't go thru it will still try... it doesn't care what kind of site it is, it doesn't even care to know, it just does it. it can go through millions of sites as well very quickly

 

[dward51]

What they need to do is block an IP range for whatever country the spam IP is from.  At least force them into a moderated status for x number of posts, then give them full access.  Might a pain for those from where ever the spam is coming from (new members anyway), but it should work.

We had so much trouble with stuff like this at my office, they finally subscribed to a list of USA IP addresses that was updated daily.  If it's not in the USA, it don't get past the front door.

 

[bobbobbbq]

What they need to do is block an IP range for whatever country the spam IP is from.  At least force them into a moderated status for x number of posts, then give them full access.  Might a pain for those from where ever the spam is coming from (new members anyway), but it should work.

We had so much trouble with stuff like this at my office, they finally subscribed to a list of USA IP addresses that was updated daily.  If it's not in the USA, it don't get past the front door.

That's great but me and a lots of other folks on here are in the U.K buddy.

 

[bregent]

 
if it is a bot and not a real person doing the spamming, a "captcha" type device should help prevent bots from signing up and posting.

a captcha is something that stops robots from signing up by asking a question that a robot can't figure out, and only an actual human can. such as reading words on a skewed graphic or answering an simple question.

this does get annoying for real users though, because they have to go to an extra step to submit a post or sign up for an account depending where the captcha is placed..

bots are sophisticated enough to defeat many captcha implementations. This site uses captcha for registration, but may need to be strengthened - it may be too easy for a bot to read. Heck, I could read it without squinting :)

 

[dward51]

That's great but me and a lots of other folks on here are in the U.K buddy.

Which is why foreign IP's could be moderated until it's determined its legit.  Then give full access.   May not be the solution, but it was a thought.

 

[bluewhisper]

It's probably a question of the capabilities of the board software, and what level of control our admins have. Or maybe there's a filter like "If Subject contains __ then delete" where the blanks could be filled with characters from Asian languages.

 

[bobbobbbq]

I hope they sort it soon as there's been a huge amount of that Korean garbage all over the site today.

 

[eman]

We are banning them as fast as we can. I banned 3 yesterday while they were posting. All hands are working to figure out how to get rid of them but until then all we can do is delete and ban. Please have patience as we are doing everything we can.

 

[bluewhisper]

I had a strange new wrinkle come up on the Outback board. We had another streaming-video spammer (94 of those so far) but this time the reported spam was on a reddit page that featured the thread on our board.

 

[letthemeatrest]

these are all really good techniques to block spamming and can be used together for extra strong security. setup filters that put any questionable post into a moderate/need approval state 

 

[daveomak]

38 pages at 10:28 PM

 

[wade]

It is 8:45am here in the UK and we are already up at over 10 pages of spam. This is becoming a common occurrence and to be frank has made me check the forum far less often than I used to. It is making the forum almost unusable for us for a great chunk of the day in the UK. I have offered to help block the spam from here (a non-US time zone) but have not heard anything back.

I hope you can get the problem sorted soon - let me know if you need any help.

Wade

 

[wade]

10:29 am here and already up to 14 pages of spam 

 

[bobbobbbq]

It's 1300hrs here in the U.K and we've had 42 pages of spam in the last hour!!
It's getting way out of control. I'm going to sign out and come back to the forum in a few weeks hopefully by then it should all be fixed.

 

[mummel]

Ok today its out of control

 

[jcollins]

 
Ok today its out of control

Agreed.

 

[jp61]

 

[jp61]

Cfarmer..... you better go look. They're at it again!

 

[pc farmer]

I am on it.

 

[jcollins]

Y​ou guys are the best.