ACCOUNT HACKING ATTEMPTS, MERGED THREAD

I got a similar email today, 5 attempts were made apparently:

Dear Larry66,

Someone has tried to log into your account on Key Publishing Ltd Aviation 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: 176.10.99.205

All the best,
Key Publishing Ltd Aviation Forums

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?134134-ACCOUNT-HACKING-ATTEMPTS-MERGED-THREAD

Not many by the look of it! 😀

Sparse! 😀

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?134134-ACCOUNT-HACKING-ATTEMPTS-MERGED-THREAD

Not many by the look of it! 😀

Log-in attempts to my account

A few weeks ago I had five log-in attempts to my account. The person (machine) involved was blocked from attempting further, and I got an e-mail as a warning.
I changed my password due to this. I tracked the IP to the States on this occation.

Today, I got another e-mail about five attempted log-ins. This IP could not be traced as it was via a Proxy server.

Anyone else get these log-in attempts?

The ‘pillock’ that tried hacking my account in June was from France it seems.

Spam-O-Matic Statistics
768,853 Spammers Denied Registration

Moggy

That would appear to be a ‘pillock’ , to quote Jim, from Nuremberg, Germany.

Have you tried looking at the top post in the forum?

Moggy
Moderator

attempts by someone ? to access my flypast account

Hi All,
I got an e mail,
5 attempts were made to try to log into my flypast account
No me !
anyone else getting strange attempts to access their account ?
cheers
jerry

Had a crack at mine last night 78.46.51.124

Thanks Newforest, just can’t understand the mentality of these idiots. Good job Key keeps an eye out for us on here.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Sorry to say that ‘pillock’ would appear to be from Frankfurt, Germany. (Don’t blame me!).

Received a message from K.P. this morning, my account was hacked 5 times, then Key locked down for 15 mins.
I.P. address was…50-7-159-178..
Any of you guys able to tell where this pillock is from?.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

I received an email from key this morning after an attempt on my account

The person trying to log into your account had the following IP address: 185.14.29.221

Hacking attempt ID’d by Key Publishing at 12.59, 01 May 15 from IP: 178.16.208.57

I don’t use Kaspersky, but Avast.

The ‘blend’ of anti-virus software you are running makes no difference to these attempts to ‘crack’ your forum account. Neither does your choice of operating system – Mac owners will also be affected by attempts to access your forum account.

While no attempt was made to access my KP account I did have a long dormant account on a Mac centric forum which suffered an access attempt. I run a Mac with minimal anti-virus software.

The people/spambots behind these attempts to access forum accounts, have no interest in you – they merely want to bypass the registration system and anti spam measures in order to use the forums to post spam messages either openly in the forum, covertly by embedding URLs into seemingly innocuous posts* (often using the quotes option and bizarre replies) or by flooding the PM system with spam private messages.

*They are often linkbots that try to build Google juice for their sites by spamming the Internet with hidden links; search engines look at raw HTML, so they pick these things up even when they don’t appear in the rendered posts.

As many forums have restrictions on the number of private messages new members send, or even restrictions on posting URLs, the easiest way is to take over an existing established (and often dormant) account. They can then spam to their hearts content, pretty safe in the knowledge, that the owner of the account will not be alerted until they get a stern email from the forum owners about “their” activity.

Best way to stop them is to ensure that you have a robust password for your account – many people tend to use a simple password for their forum accounts because often it is/was deemed to be ‘low risk’, in that very little personal info is held in your profile. They may harvest your email for spamming but their target is actually the wider audience of the forum membership…

Hacking attempt ID’d by Key Publishing at 3.20am, 27 Apr 15 from IP: 202.114.144.15

Not running Kapersky.

Apparently my account has had a hacking attack. I don’t use Kaspersky, but Avast

yes i never thought this would happen, but thanks to the awesome team @ KP this did not go undetected..

sir i know your ip, ur from brazil, your in either Sobral or Rio de genero, so please stop my friend. i wana live in peace …

IP Address Country Region City ISP
201.9.26.235 Brazil Ceara Fortaleza Oi Velox/ Telemar Norte Leste S.a.

Continent Latitude Longitude Organization
South America -3.3167 -41.4167 Oi Velox/ Telemar Norte Leste S.a.

Hi,

Can all the people getting hacking attempts please confirm if they are running Kaspersky anti-virus on their PC’s plz?

Merged all three treads regarding account hacking attempts. Please keep all relevant discussion to this one.
Peter,
Mod