Full Disclosure mailing list archives
Re: Suspect phpBB users
From: Ron Brogden <domains () islandnet com>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:58:40 -0800
On December 25, 2004 15:54, Jack Yan wrote:
We have since upgraded, but among our new users over the last few days have been a Weber361, a Weber395, and a nderevyanko.
This looks like the fallout from a standard run of the mill spam bot. The point of its actions being to generate as many distinct links back to the user's site as possible so as to increase their search engine placement. This is similar to referrer spamming in HTTP logs - just in this case it is an automated bot spamming forums instead of some other target. I doubt it is caused by a worm, more likely one or more machines running dedicated software (though it is possible this is installed on zombie machines I suppose). Cheers _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
Current thread:
- Re: Suspect phpBB users GuidoZ (Dec 26)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Suspect phpBB users Ron Brogden (Dec 29)