Info for anyone running forums

[LOAM]

Not OCUK related btw

We have noticed a large volume of bots (40+) listed under guests trying to reply to posts, look at profile etc all in the range 119.63.196.*. It is apparently a compromised Japanese BAIDU bot that is used to discover site weaknesses.

It ignores robots.txt also, reading around.

Whole IP range 119.63.196.xx ignores robot.txt / htaccess bans etc, determined spammers / hackers using rogue BAIDU bot to find weaknesses in code etc. Attempts from IP to contact forum members / post to forum / sign-up etc, and then hits same ( attempted to access ) page(s) from 20 - 50 addresses within IP range simultaneously. Half the range has been caught trying SQL Injection scripts. Ban on sight.

just for info for anyone else hosting forums

 

[blade007]

good info. this is one reason why i dislike running forums - they are very time consuming. Unless you get other people to run them (moderators etc).