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Check your email address(s) and passwords for cyber security breaches
PlainName:
Could that be a new tactic? Register an account, make a couple of innocuous posts they leave it idle for long enough that no-one immediately suspects anything when it drops the payload because it's a long-time member.
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 05, 2023, 05:59:50 pm ---Could that be a new tactic?
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New? They've been doing it as long as I can remember.
magic:
Answering my own question: there seems to be login rate limiting, 30s timeout on 6th failed attempt and 15 minutes after a dozen or so. Didn't try further. I wasn't able to login with correct PW during the timeout, so it seems effective.
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 05, 2023, 05:59:50 pm ---Could that be a new tactic? Register an account, make a couple of innocuous posts they leave it idle for long enough that no-one immediately suspects anything when it drops the payload because it's a long-time member.
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Like, 6 years idle? Where's the ROI, how do you convince customer to pay for it? ;D
Yes, it happens, but such accounts make a few "innocent" posts and proceed to post ads within a few days. A common tactic they use is editing spam links into posts which nobody reads anymore, except for search engines. And those "innocent" spam posts are written by absolute ignorants, so you can see right away that it isn't somebody who cares about electronics at all. Something like "cool project bro" or paraphrase of an earlier comment made by someone else.
The accounts hijacked today have a history of on-topic original content, even if it was simple questions about ongoing projects.
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See replies 87, 88 here for a perfect example of crude spam attempt.
pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 05, 2023, 05:59:50 pm ---Could that be a new tactic? Register an account, make a couple of innocuous posts they leave it idle for long enough that no-one immediately suspects anything when it drops the payload because it's a long-time member.
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Register and then wait >8 years to post your advert. That is a lot of patience :-DD
PlainName:
Maybe they have so many it took them that long to go around them all :)
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