Re: Forums hacked or defaced

In reply to: Klaus : "Fwd: Forums hacked or defaced"
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From: J. Hellenthal <jhellenthal_at_dataix.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:41:23 UTC

Hopefully they didn't have TurboTax 2025 installed. ::wink::::wink::

-- 
 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 <thorres@brothersofgrey.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi, this appeared on the freebsd-chat list. The FreeBSD Forum is indeed defaced right now.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Forums hacked or defaced
> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:29:33 +0000
> From: Alexandre O. de Almeida <eu@aoalmeida.com>
> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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 flood scripts. From my understanding, the TCP DDoS is not enabled yet (no params passed to the call to the github html page), but the frontpage is just replaced with embeds to a github repo:
> 
> github.com/cassbethany10-afk/test123
> 
>