Issue with hacker
7 posts by 5 authors in: Forums > CMS Builder
Last Post: April 30, 2020 (RSS)
By nmsinc - April 25, 2020
I have an issue with a malicious hacker who two to three times a week completes a new subscriber form. I record the users IP address so that I can enter it into a blocked list. However, he/she uses a different IP address each time.
I do not think he/she is gaining access as the system. What has me perplexed though, each time the new account is created, the record number assigned is either 8, 9, 10 11, or 12. These are empty record files on the system. I erase the records each time the hacker completes the form so the next record should be in sequence, or should it?
The hacker also completes every field of the form when it's not required as seen below. He/she also uses a different, but valid email address each time!
Blanda - Raynor
Eulah Jast
7055 Shayna Lock
7055 Shayna Lock
East Justusport, NE 33253
PHONE: (903) 597-6685 x98397
Any ideas or help to prevent this would be appreciated.
Any help would be appreciated.
By kitsguru - April 27, 2020
Are you using an sort of captcha? you can add googles recaptcha which works well.
You can also use hidden inputs and check those to see if modified. I have added three hidden inputs on some of my forms. One empty value, one set to 1 and one set to a string. if any value is altered, the form does not get processed.
By gkornbluth - April 27, 2020
Hi Nmsinc,
If you need them there are recipes on implementing Google recaptcha in the CMSBCookbook.
Stay safe,
Jerry Kornbluth
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By Mikey - April 28, 2020
Create a honey pot for those pest to taste. Add the code below "before" your mysql insert into table lines of code on the page that your sign up form exist. You can spin off additional honey pots or various types for almost any type of pest control.
//Pest Control
$pest = $_POST['your_accesscode'];
if($pest) {
//#kill pest
$url='https://www.usa.gov/stop-scams-frauds';
header ("Location: ".$url);
exit();
} else {
// Process form like normal
}Then add a hidden input to your sing up form.
<div class="accesscode"><input type="text" name="your_accesscode" class="accesscode" placeholder="Access Code"></div>Then a little CSS to make the input field hidden.
.accesscode {
display: none !important;
}Hope you find this helpful.
Zicky
By gregThomas - April 29, 2020
Hey nmsinc,
There are some great suggestions in this thread about how to detect and suppress malicious users from signing up to the site. But I'm wondering why the user account num is being set to 8,9,10 or 11. Could you give me more details on what method users are using to subscribe, is this using the default Website Membership user-signup.php page?
Thanks,
PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com
By gregThomas - April 30, 2020
Hey nmsinc,
If you're interested, I can review the sites sign up page to see if I can find why those num values are being reused. If you send an email to support@interactivetools.com with a link to the sites login page along with FTP details, I can take a closer look.
Cheers,
Greg
PHP Programmer - interactivetools.com