I woke up to this:
What in the name of Halle Berry is this?
This entry will be the start of something a little more out-of-topic with the blog's main point but divulges into the aspect of internet - that is, the case of why on earth are bots starting to attack the Contact Form on my website, which you can see here. I would basically get e-mails listed from myself but instead of a filled-out contact form, it would contain stuff that looks like this:
Values submitted from VC:
Send-contactus : 1
Author Name : [php]echo('casper'.php_uname().'kae');die();[/php]I have no idea what it's supposed to execute but at the very least it has the word "die" in it, so of course I'm suspicious.
Now, I think I have a slight idea as to why this massive influx happened. In the previous post before, I had linked my website again as I did just now on this website. I'm going to go ahead and safely guess that the spambots took advantage of this information and now I'm dealing with some type of malicious code. This has happened before, though, so I'm not new to it. This, however, is the first time I have to wake up to find more than 2 - 3 emails of this sort sitting in my, for lack of better terminology, crappy Hotmail inbox.
After finally finding something on Google about this today, it definitely appears to be some type of malicious coding known as a "content injection attack". I'm not going to pretend I have any clue what that means but this is probably bad either way, and I'm probably going to have to look into getting a captcha installed.
For those who have ever experienced the same problem, here's the blog post I found which explains what this is in more technical detail as well as a conclusion on internet security.
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