Many sister forums are going offline or being hacked today. This is because they use vBulletin software which has a zero day vulnerability that was disclosed two days ago.
vBulletin (which use to be a respected organisation before it was taken over by the moneymen) has not acknowledged, fixed or advised the poor forum administrators who are all now between a rock and a hard place. My heart goes out to them.
If you use a vBulletin forum that is still operating please urgently advise their Admin of the issue.
Resources:
https://forum.vbulletin.com/forum/vbull ... n-the-wild
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/2 ... g_zeroday/
Stuart
EDIT: local forums are not affected. STF uses phpBB, SExx.life use Discourse and SE23.COM uses MyBB.