Massive Spam Flood in Progress

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  • June 14, 2015 at 11:10 pm #126244
    FlakBait
    Keymaster

    Hey guys, maybe some of you have seen it maybe not but starting last week, after absolutely nothing since the forum upgrade, Amaz0ns has been slammed with spam posts. This morning alone so far I’ve banned 48 accounts and deleted 38 topics and that’s on top of the ones Alex nailed earlier. Not sure what’s going on right now but we’ll be doing our best to clean it up as soon as we can. Just letting ya’ll know what’s going on.

    June 15, 2015 at 1:06 am #126245
    cpbell0033944
    Participant

    Did you enjoy my attempts at humour in my reports? :laugh: :whistle: :blush:

    June 15, 2015 at 2:48 am #126248
    FlakBait
    Keymaster

    Did you enjoy my attempts at humour in my reports? :laugh: :whistle: :blush:

    Is THAT what that was??

    😛

    June 15, 2015 at 3:18 am #126249
    Ashlee
    Participant

    Dam I hate that and there always loaded with Male-ware and spy-bot. does dorky Guys have nothing better to do after jerking off to porn!!
    :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:

    June 20, 2015 at 8:29 pm #126415
    luvemhuge5699
    Participant

    wow, this guy is relentless. 27 posts in the last 2 hours all under different names. he really enjoys spamming up our site. what a prick!!!! :angry:

    June 21, 2015 at 6:48 am #126447
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    I just deleted about 500 spam accounts, all registered in the last week. There are a couple things I’ve set up to block spam so I’m not sure how so many got through. I’m trying to figure it out.

    FMG OG | Growth Comics | Amaz0ns founder

    June 21, 2015 at 7:02 am #126448
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    OK, I increased the protection level for the whole site; also I may have found the vulnerability that let them in in the first place, so I closed it. Cross your fingers.

    FMG OG | Growth Comics | Amaz0ns founder

    June 21, 2015 at 7:37 am #126449
    FlakBait
    Keymaster

    I just deleted about 500 spam accounts, all registered in the last week. There are a couple things I’ve set up to block spam so I’m not sure how so many got through. I’m trying to figure it out.

    Thanks, I wasn’t sure if deleting them after blocking them would allow them to re-register or not so I just left them blocked in the site registration.

    OK, I increased the protection level for the whole site; also I may have found the vulnerability that let them in in the first place, so I closed it. Cross your fingers.

    Great work, that odd forum downtime last week followed by this massive spam barrage had me concerned the site had been compromised again.

    wow, this guy is relentless. 27 posts in the last 2 hours all under different names. he really enjoys spamming up our site. what a prick!!!! :angry:

    No way to really know if it’s a bot attack or a paid spam farming operation. Based on the registration times in the system being almost exactly a minute apart in some cases I’m guessing it was a bot attack.

    June 21, 2015 at 8:22 am #126450
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    The downtime last weekend was me breaking something. Whoops.

    I think the spammers got through Cloudflare’s filter by using a subdomain that wasn’t protected by Cloudflare, probably webmail.amaz0ns.com or new.amaz0ns.com. Those weren’t real, they just took you to Amaz0ns via an unprotected route. Now they’re gone.

    FMG OG | Growth Comics | Amaz0ns founder

    June 21, 2015 at 8:33 pm #126457
    cactusjoe
    Participant

    Once again, thanks for all the efforts 🙂

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