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2010/Aug/03 - Bot Spam Attack
Topic Started: Aug 3 2010, 08:24 PM (806 Views)
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Total Forum Posts: 109,559
Total Members: 1,862 (The newest member is EXrteI8aeE)
57 minutes ago, a record 1,123 users were online.

Currently we are seeking to fill the position for Forum Admin and Forum Moderator to assist in cleaning up after a bot found a loop hole in the low level security here at NGG.

We underestimated trolls that lack a real life. They wasted time registering over 1000 new accounts within 1-hour span, authorizing those accounts at the e-mail address which mind you (no 2 accounts using the identical e-mail address are permitted on our forum). So they actually sat there and clicked the link to authenticate each and every account for over 1000 names to be made.

As if that weren't enough, within a matter of 30 minutes tops, every account was signed on to NGG at the same time and all of them spammed a 5-image topic once per account.

This was easily contained the the bots removed from forum. At the cost to new users to have to jump over hurdles and through hoops to register and have a Forum Admin hand-approve each and every account.

Every account that as already registered was still below 10 post count so it was easy as locking trial members from making new posts. All non-bot trial members should inbox a member of staff to be approved as a Full Member and once again be permitted in posting to the forum.

After all of the bot accounts are banned we shall reopen the Trial Member rank for posting. This is automatically promoted to Full Member upon the 10th post/reply by default. But is temporarily on hold from making new posts until this mishap is cleaned up.

I am currently purging the public sections where Trial Members were permitted posting rights. There are well over 400 new posts in each of these sections by the bot owner. And shall be sorted within the next couple of hours. No further abuse will occur. It's merely cleaning up the mess left behind by yet another troll group trying to earn short-lived fame at the expense of our well-mannered members.


Excite writes (before account was banned):

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Hello Kire667,
you're clearly misinformed:

Look, you think that if I can make a bot that creates 1k accounts within 1 minute easily I can't even simply parse the validation url from an inbox? Of course I can, also your figures are way off, the accounts created average about 10 topics per account coming to roughly 10.000 posts total. Here are some pictures, I would've posted them on your topic but your security measures prevent me from doing so:

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Incase anyone is interested in buying this spambot you can contact me.
Edited by Kire667, Aug 4 2010, 01:07 PM.
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me and sam already cleaned everything up
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That was fun, we finally had some work!
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Oh I know finally someone with the balls to spam US. Do it again! Do it again!

Maybe now the forum is secure on it's own apart from the usual drama that happens day in day out. But those are easily sorted by staff.. we just need to replace them inactive staff with some actives and we're all set.

Did it get all cleaned up? If there's anymore "demonstration" posts inbox me a link to and I'll hop on that and get things deleted.
Edited by Kire667, Aug 3 2010, 09:35 PM.
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I no longer feel like a troll.
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Double checked all sections and finished deleting all spam threads.
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Wow really who would sit there and do that, so is it all patched up now?
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As far as I know, everything is back to normal apart from the several new accounts that were made.
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Several he says... more like 1000 names to be banned.

Jake: You were for RuneScape. This is the first forum troll we've encountered so there was light security on the forum access and registration process. A mere e-mail got you in and that's all. Now it's the e-mail AND THEN someone has to let them in as well.
Total Forum Posts: 103,270
Total Members: 1,594 (The newest member is Snoozara)
Yesterday, 8:11 PM, a record 1,123 users were online.

Slowly but surely heading back to normal.

All posts have been deleted from that bot owner. Now we are working to remove the accounts before unlocking the ability for new users to post on the forum.
Edited by Kire667, Aug 4 2010, 11:05 AM.
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