Customer creation page - Russian hack / bot attempt?

[Dirt Surfer]

Hello

This morning I woke to find a couple of hundred mail delivery errors in my inbox.

A quick scan of one of the messages indicated it was coming from customer registrations on my Prestashop site.
I noticed that I had hundreds of new customers all of which appear to originate from russia (.ru).

Perhaps they have been created by bots or a hacker so I wanted to delete them and not have them re-register, however when I select them and bulk action delete from 'Manage your Customers' page I get an error Property Customer->firstname is not valid

It appears I cannot delete them while the the First name field is incomprehensible.

1. Can someone suggest a quick fix for this, as I would prefer not to have to go and edit hundreds of entries to change the first name.
2. Also, how can I prevent new customers from creating an ID with incomprehensible name details in future?
3. For that matter, how do I prevent any customers from Russian .RU origin?

Edited Sunday at 11:05 PM by Dirt Surfer (see edit history)

[endriu107]

Try this free module:

 

[Daresh]

What is your PrestaShop version? Invalid names should not be allowed to create a customer account in the first place.

[Mediacom87]

Hi,

Installing a captcha on PrestaShop has become indispensable.

[Dirt Surfer]

6 hours ago, Daresh said:

What is your PrestaShop version? Invalid names should not be allowed to create a customer account in the first place.

It is actually pretty old now that I look into it.
Version 1.6.1.9
I also notice when I look at the auto upgrade checklist that the PHP is also needing upgrade

[Daresh]

Old indeed. Not allowing the customers to register with weird characters in names was fixed years ago

[Dirt Surfer]

1 hour ago, Daresh said:

Old indeed. Not allowing the customers to register with weird characters in names was fixed years ago

I am concerned 1 Click Upgrade might not work given this. What do you think?

[Daresh]

Hard to tell, if your shop is clean and has no core modifications, a 1 click upgrade may work, but it must be done as an upgrade to 1.6.1.24 version, I'm not sure if the upgrade module still allows for this.

[Mediacom87]

Hi,

If you don't want to switch to the latest version of PrestaShop and keep your theme while benefiting from the latest PHP versions, you can take a look at PhenixSuite

[ST-THEMES]

Hi,

You can take a look at the Recaptcha module, that can block spam, the module supports Google Recaptcha v2, v3 and hCaptcha properly.

Best regards.