FORVM Under Hacker Attacks Again

[Joe Sermarini]

FORVM is being attacked again. Unfortunately these attacks have been a bit destructive. They upload virus infected .jpg images. The virus turns off functions of the site, replicates itself and hides. With a site this big, scanning takes many hours. We are upgrading to a Windows 2022 server and increasing security against this threat. Things may stop working as we migrate to the new server and make other changes.

[Din X]

If I go to your store I get warnings from Avast antivirus that they cancelled connection for security reasons because hompage is infected with url:phishing.

[*Alex]

That is the same message I get from my Antivirus when I try to access the shop. This is the same with Chrome or Firefox.

I can however access the shop without a problem using Tor. Strange.

Alex

[Virgil H]

That is interesting with Tor. I wonder if that is because TOR is more secure and the way that one connects between you and a web site if different than a standard browser? Just curious, is this on same computer? I ask because I never really thought about using TOR as a browser. I will try connecting with Brave I have on my desktop and see what happens. I am on a MAC laptop and it works with no warnings or anything. Will check browsers on my desktop in a few minutes and see what happens.

Virgil

[*Alex]

Same computer Virgil. That is why it is strange.

Alex

[Meepzorp]

Hi folks,

A few days ago, I started experiencing "technical problems" with Forum.  I couldn't access Forum at all. I kept getting "Bad Gateway" and "Time Out" messages. But I didn't get any warnings about a virus or anything like that. The next day, I couldn't log into Forum. The day after that (which I think was yesterday), everything was okay.

Is it possible that this virus could have infected Forum members' computers?

Meepzorp

[Joe Sermarini]

I am confident these attacks are not something that will infect your computer.

I really don't understand how malware could be phishing from shop pages. If the pop-up came in checkout, that would be a concern, but the shop can't really phish. Sorin has spent the whole day trying to figure it out.

[*Alex]

Yay!

I can now access the shop again. Well done Sorin.

Alex

[wileyc]

site working ok for me but for the first time in a while I tried to upload a new coin to my galley and I get the message

"A valid form token could not be found."

it was a jpg file 1.8 mb never had any trouble before.


tried it again all worked

Thanks for everything Joe.

Charles

[Joe Sermarini]

The attacks apparently never end, but we seem to have fixed some of the problems.