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  • My BPMS Watch blog http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress was hacked – I found 2 bogus users with level=10, normally all users except me are level=0. I myself have gotten many spam emails with subject beginning with [BPMS Watch], which is how email from my blog looks, that appear to be sent from brsilver.com. So I assume lots of other people have gotten that spam as well. I am not sure if the spam and blog hack are related, but i assume they are.

    Yesterday I upgraded from WP v2.3.2 to v2.5.1 and hoped that would end the problem. I deleted those bogus users in MySQL and don’t see anything else suspicious in the files. But I have gotten a few more spams today, just a few. They all follow the same pattern. Here is a fragment:

    From……: flash poker texas holdem
    Email…..: GioQcmWkbu@mail.yandex.ru
    Url…….: http://www.google.com/notebook/public/08094085900877019283/BDShxQwoQg6KC3aQj

    ………………………………………………….
    Subject…: poker einzahlungs bonus
    ………………………………………………….

    free poker software [url=http://www.google.com/notebook/public/08094085900877019283/BDShxQwoQs5zz3KQj]free poker software[/url]

    They all have the Google links like this. My question is this. Is this a known exploit, and beyond the steps I have taken, what else do I need to do to stop it?

    –Bruce Silver

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  • Thread Starter brsilver

    (@brsilver)

    I should also mention I have created new userid and new strong password for admin user, the only one with level>0.

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