Anyone else seeing this?

I help moderate on several web sites that use forums and this week has seen a surge in registrations from several countries known for hacking. Various off the wall advertisements being posted, the usual "enhancements" nonsense and all that.

It make me think the U.S. experiencing a cyber attack, or something.

Can anyone shed light on this?

Don't know for sure if I have this in the right place, but Security seemed like the correct general direction...

 

We were getting slammed by spam bots at one IPB forum I belong to. An update was released to combat this. The spamming has slowed down since updating.

http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=277539

 

Thanks for the feedback.

On two of the boards where I hang out I am the Admin, and on the other I'm on the moderator's team. On one of them that was a mostly public board I had to all but shut down registrations with all members at present requiring Admin approval before the account can be activated.

It has been obvious that something is afoot. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in cyber space with entirely too much spare time on their hands.