Re: POP3 logon attempts

[Tom Fischer <Tom.Fischer () rus uni-stuttgart de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:14:19PM -0500, Jerry Shenk wrote:
> There are a number of utilities to do that.  

yes, there are a number of utilities which will brute force
POP3-accounts (Hydra, Brutus, ...), but I was wondering about these
attacks, cause we saw the same attacks (only against the mentioned 
accounts) from different sources (so I thougt there might be a new 
tool or worm spreading).

> The more important question is who was trying?  That doesn't sounds like a
> 'random' scan to me.

It was a random scan against mail servers in one of our Class-B-networks.

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