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TESTING & WELCOME BOARD => Test & welcome board => Site News => Topic started by: Osmose on April 11, 2010, 04:23:07 PM

Title: Moar Hacking
Post by: Osmose on April 11, 2010, 04:23:07 PM: The theme files for the website were hacked in a similar way as the files a few weeks ago. They've been replaced and the whole forum has been scanned and is clean. In addition, our version of SMF should no longer be immune to the attack that caused this according to other places that had similar incidents.

The method was with a custom avatar, so for now, we're disabling custom uploaded avatars. You'll have to host your avatar offsite somewhere. Sorry. In addition, all old attachments and custom avatars will be deleted.

Remember, ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us) or Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com) are good places to store your avatar. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on April 11, 2010, 04:56:37 PM: Quote from: Osmose on April 11, 2010, 04:23:07 PM
The method was with a custom avatar,

My guess is with an infected .jpg?
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: MissingName on April 11, 2010, 06:36:06 PM: Well. Now we have to wonder if it was an accident or intentional.
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: Cerebus on April 12, 2010, 02:36:18 PM: A chance you're always there when needed, Osmose.

But... who would want to destroy Charas? :(
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: X_marks_the_ed on April 12, 2010, 11:04:15 PM: Quote from: Cerebus on April 12, 2010, 02:36:18 PM
But... who would want to destroy Charas? :(

<.<

>.>
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: Phayre on April 16, 2010, 07:30:37 PM: o__O
hopefully an accident. Seems like an awfully odd target.
"Oh noes! RPG maker site! It must DIIIIIIEEEEE! 1337 h@xx0r tiem!"
Talk about compensating for, well, you know.
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: Fisherson on April 22, 2010, 01:22:08 PM: Hackers? Oh great. We get rid of bots and trolls only to have hackers now? Ugh... Will the evils of the world ever cease? As for who'd want to to get rid us there are a few we've baned who might want revenge and have the capability. Like Dedly. Didn't he even brag he was a hacker once?
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: Archem on April 22, 2010, 05:25:23 PM: Oh, I have something I'd like to add. Now, I'm not sure how accurate this report is, since I wasn't able to reproduce it, but I'll tell you anyways. Yesterday, I came here, and I received a malicious content warning. Like I said, it only happened the one time, so there's a chance it was a false positive. However, it couldn't hurt to be a bit wary here, for the time being.
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: Cerebus on April 22, 2010, 05:39:34 PM: I've also received a warning from my Anti-Virus yesterday, though I can't remember if it was when I went on Charas. However, considering Charas is pretty much always the first page I open, chances are it was when on Charas. It also only happened once.

Now, whether it is a mere coincidence that we both received a warning or not remain to be known.
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: fruckert on April 22, 2010, 11:03:55 PM: I was redirected towards a small "OMG THE VIRUS HAS GOTTEN YOU DO SOMETHING NAO" thing when I went to Charas yesterday.
Wasn't my antivirus, because my anti-virus isn't run by malware.
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: Osmose on April 23, 2010, 09:54:45 PM: Yeah, we got rid of that one, it happened again, we're constantly checking and hope to have the root cause identified soon.
Title: Re: Moar Hacking
Post by: Ben on April 26, 2010, 02:29:25 PM: Godspeed Moose. You ARE the dream Unicorn.