People don't have anything better to do then flood our page?

 

most likely a spam bot. They link to offshore sites that can install trojans and malware onto your machine. Be careful what you click on!

 

My guess is from Korea somewhere, but I don't have the list of IPs used available to me (working on that...). Don't go to any of the links, especially at work, if you like your job.

 

we need an admin to clean the forum up. Most likely, they are dynamic or spoofed IP's. It'll be hard to nail one down to the exact source. I bet they source back to a Dodge/Chevy forum LOL

 

I doubt it. The same type of posts also hit Yahoo!, MSN, Dailymotion, and others within the timeframe, linking to the same sites. Most likely professional hackers.

 

lol i was kidding

Actually, it's quite easy to just spam a page. you can create a script to randomize a set of "user names" and passwords. Then they all post and link back to the same, usually virus filled, IP. Usually, most forums run off similar architecture, so it's easy to hit multiple forums at the same time. This type of attack is just an annoyance. They didn't get into any accounts or execute a DoS attack on the site in general.

 

Yeah, anyone can do that. It's just a wonder how they were able to easily verify all the accounts so quickly, especially across multiple sites. Makes me think it was the combined effort of a bot and a team of humans. I think they were professional hackers due to the list of sites being used. I want to look more into it, but not at work. I do cyber security for a living and would lose all credibility if I got this network infected :-)

 

But who knows... lots of possibilities here.

 

haha I know what you mean, I'm an IT professional myself. Too bad I left my thumbdrive at home...I have Ubuntu loaded onto it and use is as a VM to see where these IP's link back to. Just load from external vs loading windows off the hard drive. If anything goes wrong, just wipe the thumb drive lol

 

Definitely the best way to do it. I use Fedora, myself.

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