Wesnoth forums status II

As those who have read the Wesnoth.org Website forum should know, there’s currently an ongoing brute-force attack targeted at the Wesnoth.org community board attempting to log into multiple users, developers, artists and administrators’ accounts.

Although the situation is mostly under control at the moment, it’s always a good idea to remind people to choose safe, non-guessable passwords for their online accounts, and to make sure they aren’t shared amongst services.

I have been setting up filters to deny access to the board to multiple suspicious addresses and subnets. If you see a 403 Forbidden message when trying to access the forums, follow the instructions on the error page to contact us so we can sort it out.

I don’t currently have further information available on the attack that I can freely disclose, although I personally suspect it’s an attempt to disrupt regular user activity by forcing people to fill in the maximum log-in attempts CAPTCHA in the User Control Panel page.