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you should know that open source vanilla is no longer supported and has active vulnerabilities

PonicalicaPonicalica
in IJBM meta
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HH had a bunch of crypto miners get installed on their site and couldn't stop it so you should check for those on here now.

Comments

  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2025-03-15 06:52:07
    Thanks for the heads up!

    Relevant thread: https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/39620/higher-logic-has-terminated-open-source-vanilla

    This is what we get for not submitting to internet centralization in the year of our Lord 2025.
  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know
    (indulges in internet centralization conspiracy theories)
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2025-03-15 20:51:56
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Thank you ponicalica for the heads-up and thank you Stormtroper for finding the relevant thread.

    Gonna go ping the site admin about this.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2025-03-15 20:52:31
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Meanwhile, I dunno where our little crowd will be going if not here.

    Dunno if anyone's forked the software. Probably not yet since the news is so fresh.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Ponicalica wrote: »
    HH had a bunch of crypto miners get installed on their site and couldn't stop it so you should check for those on here now.
    BTW was this due to new users or was there some other attack vector?
  • Unknown_EntityUnknown_Entity
    edited 2025-03-16 14:56:20
    I went ahead and disabled registrations (read - set them to invite only) at the very least, so that's one less possible attack surface. As for what to do beyond that, not sure, given the remaining userbase is fairly thin.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    So, what are going to be the immediate consequences? Site's going offline for a while or something like that?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    I think the site's probably gonna persist for now unless some crazy shit happens.

    I hope my saying this didn't jinx it.
  • Unknown_EntityUnknown_Entity
    For now, we have basically the same measures as HH's archive in place (save locking the entire forum behind members only), so for now we'll at least keep an eye on the situation. If nothing else, we can move to the same thing they did I suppose.
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