Brute-force forum account attacks

wblock@

wblock@

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Hadn't seen these before:

Someone has tried to log into your account on The FreeBSD Forums with an incorrect password at least 5 times. This person has been prevented from attempting to login to your account for
the next 15 minutes.

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 199.48.147.38
...
The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 173.193.221.28
...
The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 192.251.226.206
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tor/anonymizer networks, afaics. The steady influx of spambots is equally annoying. Oh well, that's the world we live in.
 
I don't think spambots actually try to bruteforce existing accounts.
 
That's not what I said. It was just another example of forums in general being under fire from several angles every day.
 
Ah, right. Just wondering though, I don't see any attempts on my account. Looks like wblock is being targeted :O
 
SirDice said:
Ah, right. Just wondering though, I don't see any attempts on my account. Looks like wblock is being targeted :O
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So far, it was just those three machines, five attempts each. Probably they're working through a scraped list of usernames.
 
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