Attention All Members....Please Read Immediately

southerngale · #1 Postby **southerngale** » Fri May 21, 2004 4:46 am

Please disregard the email you received overnight from "storm2kupdates@yahoo.com" and if you haven't already, please do not click the links in the email. This was NOT sent by the storm2k administrators. Further information may be provided later.

#2 Postby **Jack8631** » Fri May 21, 2004 5:34 am

I did click on the link; my NIS 2004 said NO WAY DUDE! Pegged it as a medium risk, and killed it. I was going to contact admin at S2K this morning; happy to see your post on the matter.

Colin · #3 Postby **Colin** » Fri May 21, 2004 6:34 am

I opened it, and nothing seemed to happen...I have both Zone Alarm and Norton Antivirus.

#4 Postby **wx247** » Fri May 21, 2004 7:07 am

This makes me mad!!! That email is intentional. :grr:

Someone will pay!

GalvestonDuck · #5 Postby **GalvestonDuck** » Fri May 21, 2004 8:13 am

For some odd reason, my storm2k mail (the newsletter announcements and "A private message has arrived" alerts) go to my bulk/junk mail folder even though I didn't set it as spam. I haven't bothered to change it since most of the time, the alert at the top of the S2K suffices as PM notification and I already know when the newsletters come out and where to access it.

I bounced in here first this AM and it's a good thing. Just checked and I got that email also, so I deleted it. Was there a way for someone to send an email to all members? Is there a way to check the header and find out the IP so we can catch the bandit? Did it say anything because obviously there was no attachment.

mf_dolphin · #6 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Fri May 21, 2004 1:05 pm

For everyone's information. The board was hacked this morning at 5:ooAM or so. They were able to get access to the Admin Function and that's how they sent the e-mail. This is the work of cowards butnever fear, we will get to the bottom of it before we're done. I can promise you that!

This appears to be the work of a known hacker group that targets specific vulnerabilities in phpBB. We ma have to take the board off-line at some point to try and upgrade to the latest version. With all of the custom modifications it's not an easy thing to do. After Chad and have a chance to talk a bit this week-end we'll let you know!

#7 Postby **Jack8631** » Fri May 21, 2004 2:52 pm

I'm not an expert on computers. The email may have originated from S2K due to the hack, but the link is what triggered my NIS. I have logs with IP's and visual tracking. If this information can be of any assistance to S2K, please let me know.

breeze · #8 Postby **breeze** » Fri May 21, 2004 7:53 pm

Well, slow as I am, I haven't checked my e-mail
in DAYS, so, I'll let Yahoo have it as "Spam".

Thanks for the heads-up!

williwaw linduh · #9 Postby **williwaw linduh** » Fri May 21, 2004 8:20 pm

I opened the email as well. Then deleted the files after reading the post. Ran Norton and found nothing.

Southernmost Weather · #10 Postby **Southernmost Weather** » Sat May 22, 2004 6:13 am

Would've been nice to receive an email from an admin about NOT opening this file for those of us who don't visit here on a regular basis. How long did you know this was a bad file? Were admins planning to notify rest of membership that may not visit here on a regular basis about this situation?

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