Spam on Xenforo early hours of this morning?

[flowerpot132]

I was awake early this morning and checked new posts on the xenforo forum and saw pages of this:



Looks like it has all been removed now. What was it out of interest? Was it spam?

 

[Slavik]

Was it spam?

Yup

 

[Liam W]

I had over 160 alerts... (It might have been 360 actually, anyway it was a ridiculously large number that was 3 digits long). Selected the alerts tab, turns out all but 3 were invalid.

That's a lot of spam.

 

[Chris D]

Do you watch the Off Topic forum?

Was probably closer to 160.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Maybe BroganBot isn't a bot?! Or maybe he was just busy rebooting. As for everyone else... gotta sleep sometime.

 

[flowerpot132]

Or maybe he was just busy rebooting.

Soooo... what did happen out of interest please? And how easy is it to hack the login/sign up and someone / bot do this?

 

[Paul B]

It wasn't a hack.
It was just a spammer who posted multiple threads over a couple of hours.

 

[flowerpot132]

So he spent all night posting over 100 new threads?

 

[Daniel Hood]

So he spent all night posting over 100 new threads?

Look, spammers aren't really known for using their time wisely. lol


Seriously though,

And how easy is it to hack the login/sign up and someone / bot do this?

It wasn't a hack. It was just a spammer. XenForo has great spam management tools. You can never stop 100% of spam though because it would create a bad user experience and plus sometimes spammers aren't doing it programmatically. Plus sometimes it's legitimately a person sitting there for hours, wasting their time.

 

[Paul B]

The amusing thing is what took him two hours to do was undone in as many seconds, thanks to the spam cleaner

Click. Click. Boom!

 

[dethfire]

I'm starting to get more video stream spam for sports events

 

[Amaury]

thanks to the spam cleaner

And the awesome @Jake Bunce.

 

[Chris D]

@Brogan, actually.

 

[Amaury]

Maybe he was sneaky, then. I saw Jake on at the time, who even posted: https://xenforo.com/community/threads/wow-4-pages-of-spam-and-growing.105608/#post-987827

 

[Chris D]

Yeah it probably was Jake, actually, if he was online. Thought Paul was the first online this morning

 

[Amaury]

I see, I see.

It was only 6:04 AM for Brogan when Jake posted, though it was still 10:04 PM for Jake and me. However, it wouldn't have really surprised me if Brogan had gotten it, because, according to him, sleep is for the weak. Ain't that right, @Brogan?