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Potential phpBB Hack Coming?

 


Alienz
Published: 2006-03-19,
Last Updated: 2006-03-19 18:01:14 UTC by Marcus Sachs (Version: 1)

Two readers (thanks, Ricardo and Ken) pointed us to a story on digg that appeared this morning. The story links to a posting on a German board about a potential phpBB hack attack coming in the next few weeks:

http://www.issociate.de/board/post/312809/phpBB_mass-hack_being_prepared_

"During the last few days a bot using a name FuntKlakow, has been registering to maybe thousands of phpBB forums. Some speculate that the bot's owners are preparing to exploit an unreported vulnerability."

We might be chasing a ghost here but it's always good to be on the lookout for something like this.


Becareful to those using phpBB forum Sad
wumingsden
phpBB forums are so popular that this isn't unusal, there'll always be a way around it.

To All phpBB Admins:
I recommend that you ban the following on your forum, this information is what the exploiter users. His/Her ISP has been contacted about the issue...

Ban the Username:
FuntKlakow
Ban the Email:
funtklakow@socialinfohub.com
Ban the IP Address:
212.186.84.12
hac
OMG, this bot is also in my forum!
wumingsden
hac wrote:
OMG, this bot is also in my forum!


Note that it may/may not be a bot. A user is using this script for register at hundereds/thousands of phpBB forums. An actual person.
boringest
can't stand these ppl, what are they trying to achieve?

convert us all to pay & use vbulletin/ipb?

an austrian ip address or is he/she using an anonymizer?
Daniel15
wumingsden wrote:
hac wrote:
OMG, this bot is also in my forum!


Note that it may/may not be a bot. A user is using this script for register at hundereds/thousands of phpBB forums. An actual person.

I don't think it's a person
http://www.google.com/search?hs=Y7C&hl=en&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=funtKlakow&btnG=Search

Results 1 - 10 of about 267,000 for funtKlakow
whplace
Thanx for telling! I will be using MyBB or maybe i will backup my database..........

I hate people hacking lol Razz

whplace
n0obie4life
phpBB 2.0.20?

Smile
Daniel15
It's growing!

Results 1 - 47 of about 278,000 for funtKlakow

People are saying that setting up Visual Confirmation (ie. CAPTCHA images) will stop this guy (or girl?) from registering, but there are things like PWNtcha which show the weaknesses in these CAPTCHA images.
lukeropro
oh great, just what we need, another stupid bot on forums. I just dunno what these guys want. Why attack phpbb forums? I must say that this is very similar to the recent frihost server 2 crash. Maybe it's just some teenager who knew how to write pro scripts and wanna 'harm' people. If I find this guy I'll kill him Twisted Evil
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