AAO has been hacked
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By the way, how did you notice that the site had been hacked? Did you/someone else just stumble upon some of the spam links?
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When Unas connected to the site via FTP, he noticed an additional file that had a weird filename and a Chinese title.Singidava wrote:By the way, how did you notice that the site had been hacked? Did you/someone else just stumble upon some of the spam links?
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I'll post an announcement there as well, I just took a small break for dinnerSheikor wrote:I don't know if you were going to warn us in French
By reaching the AAO file server, they had direct access to the trial files - but they probably don't care.KratoX wrote:But I don't think I read it, there is a possibility they attacked our Trials ?
I can only think of three interesting objectives for attackers on a random forum like AAO :
- Fill the site with spam links.
Given that they did that only in hidden files and not in the site's visible pages, I guess it had to do with increasing the page ranks in search engine results (which take into account the number of links to a web page found on the web) - Fetch email/password pairs in the database : if they can then get access to mail addresses, they've got a lot of personal information to sell.
- Get control over the server to use it in a botnet, so that they could use it to spam, launch ddos attacks (when a lot of machines - typically, computers used in a botnet - all connect to a single server to overload it and shut it down), etc.
The second, the may have done.
The third they haven't, as far as I can tell, and anyway they're not gonna be able to anymore.
I noticed a page that I didn't remember creating in the AAO main directory, noticed it was filled with spam links, and investigated on how it got there.Singidava wrote:By the way, how did you notice that the site had been hacked? Did you/someone else just stumble upon some of the spam links?
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I just reported the announcement in the Spanish section, so that they're aware too of this issue.
(Of course I summarized it a lot and only gave essential information.)
(Of course I summarized it a lot and only gave essential information.)
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Okay, thanks
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Wow, seriously? Didn't think anyone would AAO a place of interest to hack.
Anyway, password and e-mail changed.
Anyway, password and e-mail changed.
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Noooo! Why would anyone hack this wonderful community?!
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Wow, seems like I'm a little bit late to the party - nonetheless, I have translated the thread for the German users now as well.
Shame on these Chinese hackers.
Shame on these Chinese hackers.
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I have changed my password.
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Re: AAO has been hacked
Okay, this may or may not be a false alarm, but...
Yesterday, I logged onto the site to find I was logged out, and my password wouldn't work. So I reset the password from my email, thinking that I may just have logged out by accident the day before, and that I'd forgotten my password. When I logged in, I checked "log me on automatically each visit," and changed the password right after.
Today, though, the exact same thing happened. I did exactly what I did yesterday, including manually changing my password just a few minutes ago.
I don't know if this is just some glitch or something with the forums, but it's never happened to me before.
Yesterday, I logged onto the site to find I was logged out, and my password wouldn't work. So I reset the password from my email, thinking that I may just have logged out by accident the day before, and that I'd forgotten my password. When I logged in, I checked "log me on automatically each visit," and changed the password right after.
Today, though, the exact same thing happened. I did exactly what I did yesterday, including manually changing my password just a few minutes ago.
I don't know if this is just some glitch or something with the forums, but it's never happened to me before.
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Ah, right. Delete all of your cookies to see if it's just that. If the password keeps getting changed, though, then it's definitely not the cookies.
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Re: AAO has been hacked
So the next question is to figure out who on the forums is from china.
I think it's lagger.
I think it's lagger.
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Ugh Not him again...Whirlwind wrote:So the next question is to figure out who on the forums is from china.
I think it's lagger.
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We're not here to bash all chinese people, it really wouldn't help.Whirlwind wrote:So the next question is to figure out who on the forums is from china.
The hacker is probably from outside the forums anyway - the attack is nothing specific to AAO, it's more of a generic attack.
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I was joking when I said that, but yes. What you said.Unas wrote:We're not here to bash all chinese people, it really wouldn't help.Whirlwind wrote:So the next question is to figure out who on the forums is from china.
The hacker is probably from outside the forums anyway - the attack is nothing specific to AAO, it's more of a generic attack.