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Title: Brute force attack in progress? Post by: Jhanzo on June 27, 2016, 02:57:41 AM Who's online page (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=who) showing unusually large amount of "Guest XX:XX:XX XX Logging into the forum.". Is that normal?
Looks like there's no captcha requests when logging in. I could've swore it was there before... Title: Re: Brute force attack in progress? Post by: bones261 on June 27, 2016, 03:11:16 AM Who's online page (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=who) showing unusually large amount of "Guest XX:XX:XX XX Logging into the forum.". Is that normal? Looks like there's no captcha requests when logging in. I could've swore it was there before... A person can read content without logging in. They can't post or view trust though. Title: Re: Brute force attack in progress? Post by: guitarplinker on June 27, 2016, 03:15:41 AM A person can read content without logging in. They can't post or view trust though. That's true, but Jhanzo is pointing out that it looks like a lot of those guests are trying to log into the forum, which could point to a brute force attempt at logging into someone's account.Title: Re: Brute force attack in progress? Post by: Jhanzo on June 27, 2016, 03:33:25 AM Looks like it have stopped. Went from 240~ pages to 100~ pages pretty fast.
A person can read content without logging in. They can't post or view trust though. That's true, but Jhanzo is pointing out that it looks like a lot of those guests are trying to log into the forum, which could point to a brute force attempt at logging into someone's account.Aye, that's what I meant. |