Author Topic: Massive spam attack via PM/posts on forums/IRC (Read 9712 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **on:** February 12, 2008, 02:43:00 am »

Due to a massive spam attack a few hours ago we had to disable the registration system on the board, so new members cannot register an account until further notice.

Also the entire IRC channel was locked down from new members as well.

Edit(Netham45):
If you want into the IRC channel, message an OP(DJ_Omnimaga, rivereye, telroth, tifreak, or myself) and we will grant you entrance.

Netham45 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 12, 2008, 11:17:00 am »

Yea, someone has too much time on their hands. Added a little bit to your comment.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #2 on:** February 12, 2008, 01:34:00 pm »

well, the problem is that then the troublemaker is gonna pretend to be a new member and join the channel then start his thing again, so we should only let members who alerady came in the channel in

Liazon · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2008, 06:40:00 pm »

jeez this is annoying.

JonimusPrime · « **Reply #4 on:** February 12, 2008, 06:44:00 pm »

I fell we let them be stupid and just let it be they will eventually get bored and we can all get back to life.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:34:00 pm »

Yeah I dont think this will stop anytime soon

I forgot to disable registrations again after pre-registering Ben Trettel earlier. it didnt took long before the board got spammed again.

It really sounds like a 4chan/711chan raid tho because idk if nikky would spend so much time doing this, and I think he would be proud of doing it if he did, such as he did with omnimaga.dyndns.org (he posted about it)

dinhotheone · « **Reply #6 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:41:00 pm »

intelligent (relatively) people with too much time on thier hands are dangerous.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #7 on:** February 12, 2008, 07:51:00 pm »

yeah, now i wonder how long this will last. If when the old board is back up it still happens then this will mean we will have to permanently disable registrations

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #8 on:** February 12, 2008, 08:32:00 pm »

sure thing we broke our user online record now. It's the first time I see 34 guests online in an hour here since the June 27th spambot attack (500 in an hour)

JincS · « **Reply #9 on:** February 13, 2008, 12:13:00 am »

What all did I miss (aside from the link at the top of the page next to the portal link that says "LOLWTF? O.o" and goes to a page with some random text on it)?

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #10 on:** February 13, 2008, 12:42:00 am »

you missed about 38 posts by someone impersonatting nikky (or nikky?) in every topics of the forums (most of which were deleted), i also got this post via PM about 40 times, and all other members too. Afterward I had to disable registrations since they used Tor to proxy and then they started spamming the IRC channel instead. Then we had to lock the entire channel from users with unknown hostmasks. Today ben trettel asked for an account so I reenabled registration to create him an acct, but i forgot to redisable them again, so while i went to eat dinner we got another spam attack on the forums.

It sounded pretty 4chan-ish, but the fact allynfolksjr/nikky photo was used as avatar for one of the account makes me convinced someone from #tcpa triggered it, altough didn't necessarly performed the attack himself

JincS · « **Reply #11 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:10:00 am »

Hmmm...It looks like there's still a bit of cleaning up to do. If you need some help, I'd be more than happy to be a temp-mod

P.S: Do you have a copy of the logs from the attack (if there are logs)? I'd like a copy if you have any.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:12:00 am »

I dont have logs unfortunately, but I left a few of the posts as proof. It should be ok for now

btw did u got my PM? For some reason it doesnt seems to have sent

JincS · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:14:00 am »

Nada. I got two PM's, but both were just topic reply notices

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2008, 01:18:00 am »

wow strange, did they broke the PM system or something?

could u login on Yahoo I will pm you there

Author Topic: Massive spam attack via PM/posts on forums/IRC (Read 9712 times)

Liazon