[nycbug-talk] new bruteforcing. . .

[Mikel King]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 2:12 PM, George Rosamond wrote:

> I noticed this happening to some of our boxes last night while tailing
> some logs:
>
> http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3529
>
> Anyone else notice this going on?
>
> It's not really groundbreaking, but the fact that it's in a  
> distributed
> model is somewhat new for ssh and mysql bruteforce zombies.
>
> Nmaps for OSs are sketchy of course, but seems like mostly Linux   
> boxes.
> . . which is somewhat groundbreaking.
>
> George


Actually yes. We observed this weekend an unusual rise of login  
attempts.

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