Malicious redirector issue

macsavant

Member
Any mods want to chime in on what happened with the two links I posted in the shoutbox with the malicious redirectors?
 

NOS911

Global Moderator
Staff member
The links were dealt with accordingly by deleting them and reuploading fresh links.
 

macsavant

Member
But the question is how did they get there. I find it unlikely that two mods, both of whom are prolific posters, would both choose the same day to post a malicious redirector to the same site instead of a safe link.

My thinking is that somehow the Kitty Kats system injected the redirectors there when they were posted. Why it would do that is what I'm wondering. Is it possible someone found a vulnerability in XenForo and is exploiting it?
 

NOS911

Global Moderator
Staff member
It was infected computers owned by the posters, they have sorted that and replaced the links.
The forum was not compromised.
 

macsavant

Member
Thank you. That's good to know.

One last question. Was the board scanned for more instances of the malicious links than the two that I found?
 

NOS911

Global Moderator
Staff member
Yes it was, all found have now gone. We will also be checking regularly for any more so thank you for bringing it to our attention.
 
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