Re: Forums hacked or defaced

"J. Hellenthal" <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:41:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.security.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hopefully they didn't have TurboTax 2025 installed. ::wink::::wink::

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 J. Hellenthal

The fact that there's a highway to Hell but only a stairway to Heaven says a=
 lot about anticipated traffic volume.

> On Mar 30, 2026, at 12:39, Klaus <[email protected]> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFHi, this appeared on the freebsd-chat list. The FreeBSD Forum is i=
ndeed defaced right now.
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Forums hacked or defaced
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:29:33 +0000
> From: Alexandre O. de Almeida <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
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> Hi,
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> it seems like the forums have been defaced, not sure how, but it's loading=
 a webpage from a github repository which seems to include some TCP SYN floo=
d scripts. =46rom my understanding, the TCP DDoS is not enabled yet (no para=
ms passed to the call to the github html page), but the frontpage is just re=
placed with embeds to a github repo:
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> github.com/cassbethany10-afk/test123
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