Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts
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Well seems some script kiddies have found another way to automatically create random fake accounts and post SPAM, making the forums unusable.
Seems like there needs to be additional barriers to creating fake accounts.
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additional barriers
That's problematic, as the bots are getting more 'intelligent' as some of the human (may I call them bottom tiers ?) subscribers.
The forum was usable (for me) as the spammer(s) posted only here : Home > pfSense
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@Gertjan said in Fake Accounts and SPAM Posts:
as the spammer(s) posted only here : Home > pfSense Software > General pfSense Questions
Not only there also in https://forum.netgate.com/category/76/tnsr-feedback and in other parts of the forum too ...
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Seeing a lot of this lately elsewhere too. Over here, they seemed to be posting every few seconds since last night. Need to beef up the security.
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Was up at 3am local dealing with this.
We’re on it
