Is the Forum under Attack?
  • ronkrisman
    Posts: 1,403
    I just received 342 identiclal emails from Musica Sacra Forum. The message:

    RDFYjolf sent you a message.

    555

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    Follow the link below to check it out:
    https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/messages/91255#105315

    Have a great day!


    The same message is in my Forum inbox 100 times or so.

    What's up?
    Thanked by 2montre_16 tomjaw
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 3,181
    We must have posted around the same time. To date I've received over 600 emails. RDFYjolf was very evidently compromised.
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,464
    Yes. It would be nice if they could be universally expunged by administrative action.
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,268
    343 in my Inbox.
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,464
    Started at 9:46AM Eastern Daylight Time.
  • AngelaRAngelaR
    Posts: 342
    And all the emails say simply

    555

    At least it’s not 666…
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen montre_16
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,268
    It's up to 686 in my inbox now.
  • AbbysmumAbbysmum
    Posts: 105
    I also have 686 messages.

    Is there a way to bulk delete them from my forum mailbox?
    Thanked by 1FSSPmusic
  • FSSPmusic
    Posts: 426
    688 here!
  • Chant_Supremacist
    Posts: 228
    Not all the messages say 555. Others contained backslashes and periods, and one a string of mostly punctuation gibberish but with 'passwrd' in it. Idk if these mean anything.

    Edit: other things too, some of it looks like code.
  • francis
    Posts: 11,175
    Me over 600… help Chonak … .we are drowning in 1s and 0s
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,464
    I sent a message to the good Adminstrator, who might well have a real life to lead (perhaps playing at a funeral this morning, for example....)
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,212
    If you google the username similar strings appear in the Google previews associated with the username.
  • SponsaChristi
    Posts: 606
    I have also received almost 700 emails and private messages from this account:
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    750 x 1091 - 320K
  • irishtenoririshtenor
    Posts: 1,404
    Wow, I haven't received any!
    Thanked by 1Roborgelmeister
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,090
    Thanks to all who alerted me about this! I have deleted the account and taken some steps to block the perpetrator from returning.

    Thanked by 14Liam Roborgelmeister tandrews Quaerens tomjaw PaxTecum Abbysmum AngelaR CHGiffen AdteBeateJoseph3 Charles_Weaver FSSPmusic Verbum_Gloriae LauraKaz
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,212
    My forum inbox is now usable again, with the offending messages being removed, so thanks!
  • Chant_Supremacist
    Posts: 228
    Mine still says I have 685 unread messages. Nice to feel popular.
    Thanked by 5FSSPmusic ServiamScores Verbum_Gloriae monasteryliturgist Abbysmum
  • AngelaRAngelaR
    Posts: 342
    Thank you so much for doing that, @chonak. Do you have any tips for erasing all the messages? I started erasing, but with 2-3 clicks required to delete one conversation, and nearly 700 messages...there must be an easier way?
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,041
    I didn't think I had that many friends. Now to get rid of them. LOL
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • francis
    Posts: 11,175
    My inbox still has hundreds
    Thanked by 1CharlesW
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 432
    Do you have any tips for erasing all the messages? I started erasing, but with 2-3 clicks required to delete one conversation, and nearly 700 messages...there must be an easier way?


    Unless @chonak handles this on the database level, I'll eventually try to provide some kind of browser automation solution.
    Thanked by 1Abbysmum
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,627
    I can select all these messages by a search on RDFYjolf, and ask my softwre to delete them, BUT it will only trash 30 at a time. (30 at a time is better than one at a time)
  • Don9of11Don9of11
    Posts: 803
    I have gotten 684.

    edit------
    looks like there gone now.
  • CharlesCharles
    Posts: 12
    @Chant_Supremacist
    @CharlesW

    Me too!

    Was this what the Egyptians felt like when the eighth plague came?
    Thanked by 4CharlesW CHGiffen monasteryliturgist Abbysmum
  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 508
    mine says 688 messages however when I go to the inbox nothing is there
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,268
    My inbox says 685 messages, but they have been cleared out, too.
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,090
    Would anyone who still has junk messages in his or her forum inbox please let me know the username of the sender?

    Copies that are in your personal e-mail inbox are beyond my reach to delete, so you'll need to delete them en masse on your own.

    Thanked by 3rvisser Don9of11 Abbysmum
  • AbbysmumAbbysmum
    Posts: 105
    My says there's 685, but if I click on it, it's empty.
    Thanked by 2Chant_Supremacist ServiamScores
  • monasteryliturgistmonasteryliturgist
    Posts: 508
    @chonak mine dont have a message inside but on the inbox section at the top it still says I have 688 new messages even though nothing is there.
    Thanked by 2CharlesW ServiamScores
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,041
    I'm getting the same thing.
  • GerardH
    Posts: 620
    @Abbysmum @monasteryliturgist @CharlesW I found the new message number went away if I opened another message in my inbox
    Thanked by 6chonak monasteryliturgist CharlesW CHGiffen Abbysmum Verbum_Gloriae
  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
    Posts: 307
    FWIW, I don't use a mail box on this site, so not complications for me.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,041
    GerardH, that did it. Thanks!
  • madorganist
    Posts: 909
    These are no longer showing in my inbox on this site, but notifications continue to come to my e-mails address by the dozens as recently as just a few minutes ago, all from the same username, RDFYjolf.
    Thanked by 1Don9of11
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,913
    New Email notifications still arriving by the hundreds as of 1:00 AM Aug. 15
    Thanked by 1Don9of11
  • Don9of11Don9of11
    Posts: 803
    I'm also still getting email notifications.
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    edit

    here is the message:

    RDFYjolf sent you a message.

    555

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    Follow the link below to check it out:
    https://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/messages/126640#141458

    Have a great day    !

  • madorganist
    Posts: 909
    These are arriving consistently at 32 minutes past the hour, including another half dozen four minutes ago.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 12,041
    It's just trying to let us know our car warranty is expiring.
    Thanked by 1ServiamScores
  • madorganist
    Posts: 909
    This continues, day 5. New messages come to my e-mail address, although they don't appear in the inbox on this site. Is it not possible to block @RDFYjolf altogether? How is s/he/it still managing to send messages from automated-email-no-reply-please@musicasacra.com?
  • GerardH
    Posts: 620
    @madorganist, it sounds like the messages are caught up somewhere on your email provider's server and are slowly being drip-fed into your inbox. I expect they were all originally sent at the same time everyone else received them.

    Perhaps try and create a filter on your inbox to automatically delete the emails.
    Thanked by 3Liam MatthewRoth Abbysmum
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,212
    ^yeah, I have not gotten any since chonak intervened around the same point in time that I created the filter.
  • madorganist
    Posts: 909
    it sounds like the messages are caught up somewhere on your email provider's server and are slowly being drip-fed into your inbox
    Serves me right for still using AOL in 2025!
    Thanked by 3GerardH CharlesW MatthewRoth
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,090
    The e-mail copies are not being caused by the spammer directly. Instead, when he posts "conversation" messages into people's forum inboxes, the forum software generates an e-mail copy of each one.

    It's good to mass-delete those e-mails from your "mailbox", but please don't create an automatic filter to do so, since that would also delete legitimate messages sent from the forum software too.
  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 3,212
    When it was unclear when this would end, I filtered out only an exact match for RDFYjolf.

    Doing it by email address is indeed a bad idea.

    But since it is fixed searching RDFYjolf in your inbox has the same effect.
    Thanked by 1ServiamScores
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 3,181
    I also used that (helpfully unique) user name as my parameter for auto-deleting.
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