Ute Hub is under attack

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- 01/08/2019 at 5:38 PM #87876
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  Tony (admin)
  Admin/Founder
  
  @admin
  
  I’ve had a chance to look into why the site has been running slowly. It looks like my server is under an xmlrpc attack. I’ve bocked a few of the offending countries like Sri Lanka, Russia, Turkey, and that has decreased the server load quite a bit, but it is still under attack. It might be slow going until the attackers move on, or until I find a way of blocking them.
- 01/08/2019 at 5:56 PM #87877
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  chinngiskhaan
  Ute Fan
  
  @chinngiskhaan
  
  I blame the zoobs
- 01/08/2019 at 6:09 PM #87879
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  Utebeam
  Ute Fan
  
  @utebeam
  
  Was one of the locations Provistan?
  - 01/08/2019 at 7:07 PM #87892
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    Tony (admin)
    Admin/Founder
    
    @admin
    
    If I could block Provo I would. Come to think of it… if a UFO came down and scooped Provo off of the earth’s surface I’d be fine with that too.
    - 01/08/2019 at 8:39 PM #87909
      
      EagleMountainUte
      Ute Fan
      
      @battlegroundute
      
      They wouldn’t mind it either if something scooped them off the face of the Earth.
- 01/08/2019 at 6:28 PM #87882
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  Chidojuan
  Ute Fan
  
  @chidojuan
  
  I’m surprised we haven’t seen a lot of spam messages, unless those are getting blocked already. I’ve seen this happen to a few forums, and it seems to take a few days to clear up completely. Sorry Tony, we’re in it with you for the long haul.
  - 01/08/2019 at 6:47 PM #87889
    
    Tony (admin)
    Admin/Founder
    
    @admin
    
    Yeah the attack isn’t on the front end of the board. It’s attacking an xml login method I don’t use. I disabled it, but the attack is still going.
- 01/08/2019 at 8:46 PM #87912
  
  Tony (admin)
  Admin/Founder
  
  @admin
  
  Turns out one of my other websites on my server is being attacked, but that is taking over 500% of the server’s resources to handle. So unfortunatley I had to disable that website temporarily. Hopefully the attacking bots will move on and I can turn that site back on tomorrow morning. Hopefully Ute Hub will speed up a bit but there are still lingering effects of the attack going.