"Hello. We have taken your forum database hostage. Send 0.09 BTC to..."

I hate my life.

Restore from backup?

what happened nand how?>

@NotWhoIUsedToBe Working on that. The host is crap and doesn't make DB restores easy. Waiting for a ticket to be fulfilled.

@alexbrooklyn vBulletin was the target. The hacker added b374k shell 3.2 script to the vBulletin root to write multiple readme files containing the demands. On the DB end, they used a zero-day exploit that vBulletin has known about for a while but never patched. I only found out about it after a Google search that explained it and how it's only been the last two days that it's been ramping up. https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/...

@stackodev ol'
@BobbyTables strikes again. Sanitize your inputs people.