Re: Scanning from source Port 220 for Port 21

[<caldcv () students fccj org>]

In-Reply-To: <20040331162805.9303.qmail () search securityfocus com>

> We have in the last 5 weeks seen an increase of scanning from port 220 to FTP. 
> The traffic appears to follow the charachteristics of the Dameware scanning of months past.
> Has anyone else noticed this on their networks? Do you have any idea what tool/worm may be used to cause this activity?

http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/intrusions/2004/02/msg00055.html

http://lists.elvandar.org/pipermail/securityfocus-incidents/2004-January/000042.html

  Apparantly, DameWare is a big thing. I think it's mainly contributed to the IRC warez scene, because its a popular 
tool for them to use. Do you have any possible infected hosts on your network that you don't know about?

-CC

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