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Re: [NANOG] IOS rootkits


From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:07:48 -0500

Florian Weimer wrote:

| Network administrators are not able to observe Lawful Intercept is
| enabled. No Lawful Intercept program messages or error messages are ever
| displayed on the console.

<http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_0s/feature/guide/lawf_int.html>

This is a Sony-style rootkit, but it certainly demonstrate that the
concept is feasible (surprise).


Eh, it's a little misleading. Every Net admin knows when Lawful Intercept is 
activated on their router. The processor utilization takes a major spike. What 
it's doing might not be known, though umm, even intercept traffic itself can be 
intercepted or redirected through portions of the network where it can be 
intercepted. ;)

Jack

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