Gator001 Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Looks like the russian bots are doing overtime. Do they think this is twitter or the GOP's inboxes?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daudy Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 They are winning the spam war because there is only one Bob Slay to face them all. Apparently he goes to bed sometimes too. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gator001 Posted April 26 Author Report Share Posted April 26 i feel for him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skuzbukit Posted April 26 Report Share Posted April 26 Russian wankers... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenlow73 Posted April 29 Report Share Posted April 29 They still aren't done either, hit the off topic like four hours ago twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago Apparently an easy fix with 2 factor authentication for forum sign up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skuzbukit Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago All of the recent attacks have used OLD accounts already set up on the site with zero prior posts. These all have email addresses with a very apparent pattern but which are very hard to combat with the available website tools. On a few occasions I have logged onto spot a user name that looks similar to the dozens they have used before and I have checked the email address, seen it looks very much like the format used for the others and managed to ban them before they even posted anything. Script kiddies could have easily manufactured thousands of accounts on this website with some very simple automation and all done long before measures were put in place to make sign up more secure. I have suggested a purge of all old accounts with zero posts to clear out all the possible accounts these spammers can use, whether that's possible under this forum's back end or not I don't know. The alternative is having access to the full members list of accounts with emails & manually deleting/banning them which could take a long time if there are a lot in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skuzbukit Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago For example I literally just banned: - https://forums.mmatycoon.com/index.php?/profile/123492-andreasbgp/ - https://forums.mmatycoon.com/index.php?/profile/124547-viktorijkl/ - https://forums.mmatycoon.com/index.php?/profile/125461-agrohimbcj/ All have a similar email address "style" (mods & admins can see these) and all of them had zero prior activity, no posts, likes, dislikes, etc. Look at their joined date and all are historical accounts, same pattern as all of the prior Russian-langauge spammers. I've looked athe IP addresses and they have all been VPN servers, and most of them are on IP blacklist addresses. e.g. Andreasbgp 11 minutes ago · 188.214.122.57 https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/188.214.122.57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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