Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14244 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2023 17:57 Post subject: ALERT - Spam Bot Activity
It seems apparent that in the past week, the forum has been getting beat up with spam activity. The concern from my perspective is that the accounts spamming the forum are random long-time registered accounts that have apparently been compromised, or so it seems. Just wanted everyone to be aware and suggest taking proper precautions.
This forum software is going on 20 years old. We could have had a module installed for reporting spam or the forum could've been upgraded to 3.0.x back in 2010...
I've been trying to get the board updated for about a year now. A few days ago I was told that the upgrade to phpBB3 (which has this built in) has been put on hold.