More FuntKlakow: Bot Authors Targeting phpBB Forums

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

More on FuntKlakow, via Netcraft.

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Bots are registering user accounts on thousands of phpBB forums across the Internet, raising concerns that the bot's 
authors are laying the groundwork for mass exploitation down the road. The activity of a bot named FuntKlakow was 
discussed in a Digg thread Sunday, with many forum owners confirming that FuntKlakow had created accounts and even 
posted simplistic messages ("O How nice" and "Wow that is cool").

FuntKlakow's post signatures have included links to proxy surfing and "traffic generator" services, raising the 
prospect that its goal may be spam rather than exploits. But as noted on a German site that issued an early warning 
about the bot's behavior, "the next time the phpBB announces a critical vulnerability, the bot would have everything 
ready (just a post click away) from attacking thousands of sites/forums." Google searches suggested the bot may have 
created accounts on as many as 33,000 forums.

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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/03/20/bot_authors_targeting_phpbb_forums.html

- ferg 


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