Re: Country of Origin for Malicious Attacks

["Scott A. McIntyre" <scott () xs4all net>]

Hi,

> > : I was wondering if folks had noticed any trends with malicious network
> > : attacks predominantly originating from any individual or group of
> > : countries.  Any observations, comments or help would be greatly
> > : appreciated.

As I'm sure will be mentioned a few dozen times by the time this message 
gets to the list, "origin" isn't as simple as where the packets you see 
come from.

Malicious attacks can and do come from many places, people, groups, 
organizations -- utilizing any number of compromised systems, trojans, 
bots, proxies, truly malicious attacks can often be as difficult to trace 
as a Hollywood movie phone call, routing through a dozen systems in as many 
countries.

If people replying on this thread mean that they've actually tracked the 
true source of the malicious activity back to (.it|.cn|.ro|.ru|.fr|...) by 
working with network and system administrators then it might be useful to 
point that part out, as well as share how you found responsible contacts 
who verified your investigations and assisted for some of these (and many 
other) countries.

Scott