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Re: increase of scans against port 1524


From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:36:15 -0400 (EDT)


ingreslock   1524/tcp    ingres
ingreslock   1524/udp    ingres

For some reason, the script kiddie community has standardized on this
port as a backdoor for most automated attacks...  Though the
vulnerabilities and tools are constantly changing, we have repeatedly
seen the use of 1524 as the backdoor.

This is probably because new shellcode for buffer overflows is still
difficult to write, so many exploit writers (and subsequently script
kiddies) "cut and paste" the same shellcode over and over again.

- Steve

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