Re: lots of connections to 64.40.117.19 port 80

["Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele () hushmail com>]

Ganbold,

This sounds like a textbook case of Cross Site Scripting (XSS). 
Consider filtering user output more carefully.

J

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:54:24 -0400 Ganbold <ganbold () micom mng net> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I have seen a lots of connections to 64.40.117.19 port 80 
> in 
> one of our clients network.
> Connections are coming from all over the Internet (various 
> different 
> IPs) specifically to this IP.
> Due to this problem (I guess it is DDoS) one of our router's CPU 
> usage 
> grew up to 100% and stopped a service
> for a while.
> What kind of problem this could be?
> Has anybody seen this kind of attack before?
> I appreciate if somebody can enlighten me in this regard.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Ganbold
>
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