Why are we getting Russian spam?

[GLV55]

All of a sudden there is a ton of crap being posted by some Russian spammer on this forum. Moderator needs to exorcise the demon!    We didn't go through the Cold War only to have to put up with this junk. Grrrr!

[zombie]

I have not seen it yet but lately there is a flood of spam on the net. It's coming from three different sources. One is a server in the Netherlands that is known for allowing illegal Internet traffic (ie: spammers/hackers), another is a china based server that is primarily hacking whatever it gets a return "ping" from, and the third is in the Russian federation. that one is a compilation of spam, and DOS attacks.

The only thing that can be done (on Skad's end) is weather the storm until the servers are shut down. or temporally block the IP ranges the attacks are coming from. The issue there is legit net users are also in the ranges of the attacks.

The net is a dangerous place. I am completely surprised that 90% of the users are not knowingly experiencing issues w/ their equipment. Perhaps it is only 2-3% that realize there is even an issue.

[GLV55]

The Kymco forum hereby authorizes Zombie to seek out and destroy on our behalf!

[AMAC1680]

I saw, it was all over .
Don't know why I didn't understand any of it but had 6 vodka tonics while reading it......

Be big.
AMAC

[zombie]

The Kymco forum hereby authorizes Zombie to seek out and destroy on our behalf!

I only go after the ones that target me. Otherwise I'd never leave the computer.
 It's easy to shut down a server... All you really need is an army of zombie computers or several smaller more powerful servers that have open ports.
 Be careful what emails you open or what links you click on porn sites.
There are lists of "zombie computers" on every hacking web site/forum.

WiKi
"Zombies can be used to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks, a term which refers to the orchestrated flooding of target websites by large numbers of computers at once. The large number of Internet users making simultaneous requests of a website's server are intended to result in crashing and the prevention of legitimate users from accessing the site.[3] A variant of this type of flooding is known as distributed degradation-of-service. Committed by "pulsing" zombies, distributed degradation-of-service is the moderated and periodical flooding of websites, done with the intent of slowing down rather than crashing a victim site. The effectiveness of this tactic springs from the fact that intense flooding can be quickly detected and remedied, but pulsing zombie attacks and the resulting slow-down in website access can go unnoticed for months and even years.[4]"

http://blog.pluralsight.com/videos/ethical-hacking-how-to-create-a-dos-attack

I love this stuff. It's more fun that scooters.

[zombie]

I saw, it was all over .
Don't know why I didn't understand any of it but had 6 vodka tonics while reading it......

Be big.
AMAC

3 triple Martini's... When I sit on the roof, I can see your house.

[GLV55]

Pardon the French....or maybe Russian......b@st@rds!

[zombie]

Skads gonna have to ban the account. That's all there is.

I forgot about signing up as a member.

I do wish they had better products... I don't need the blue pill (yet)

[AMAC1680]

3 triple Martini's... When I sit on the roof, I can see your house.

Stop looking down on me, comrade ......

Be Big,
AMAC

[zombie]

I was looking up. 

То, что я увидел, глядя страшно борщ из меня .

[bluesin]

I reported this to Skad yesterday .

I have a warped(slightly ) sense of humor...but those went too far .

Being a Swede I had 8 straight shots of Skandia vodka.... my eyes still burned , but - I vcould fly ( I think? ) .

[zombie]

That's how I wound up on the roof.
Three drinks, and  I was chasing a turtle.
Next thing I knew I was stuck up there (he knocked down the ladder). Then...  he (the turtle) started chasing my dogs down the street on my scooter.

Thank god for Twinkles. When he came outside to smoke a Cig. I just stepped off, onto his head, went inside, and called it a night.

[bluesin]

That's how I wound up on the roof.
Three drinks, and  I was chasing a turtle.
Next thing I knew I was stuck up there (he knocked down the ladder). Then...  he (the turtle) started chasing my dogs down the street on my scooter.

Thank god for Twinkles. When he came outside to smoke a Cig. I just stepped off, onto his head, went inside, and called it a night.

Glad you made it down safely ! Surprised winkles was tall enough after the leg surgery . Must have been what he was smoking :

[zombie]

No... you have no idea... That SOB is HUGE! Even w/ no legs.

Ps... I go everywhere but never leave this town...
 

[skadamo]

Thanks for the patience on this guys.

I run multiple forums and they were all getting a lot of spammers the last few days.

Zombie, that is interesting info about the source servers. I'm interested to hear where you found it.

These spam users are all automated. The spammers must have a human being go in and figure out the security question on the registration page. Then they create a script that looks for the text of the question and then specifies the right answer it pulls from a database. On some sites I removed a single character from the question and it stopped the spammer registrations. In the defense of the spammers they don't make it too hard to stop them so they give me fighting chance. I know some are capable of taking this site down if they really want to so I will be cautious about what I say about them