Re: attack

[Skip Carter <skip () taygeta com>]

> So what's the best thing to do with this type of attack? Turn'em in?
> To who? Is there a way I can let them know that I know what their 
> doing? Any ideas?
 

> [**] [1:1256:2] WEB-IIS CodeRed v2 root.exe access [**]
> [Classification: Web Application Attack] [Priority: 1]
> 02/22-10:13:19.830419 63.204.135.168:2122 -> 63.169.127.223:80
> TCP TTL:119 TOS:0x0 ID:56151 IpLen:20 DgmLen:112 DF
> ***AP*** Seq: 0x79EC6CC Ack: 0x21AE2090 Win: 0x4248 TcpLen: 20 

  Unfortunately, there isn't a lot you can do about these attacks other than
  defend yourself against them.  I have gone as far as firewalling a few of
  the very persistent servers.

  I have tracked down sysadmins of the offending servers in some special cases
  (hospitals, insurance companies, financial institutions, and government 
agencies).
  The nearly universal response was "I didn't know we were running a web server
  on that machine!" (a consequence of MS efforts to brag that they have more
  deployed IIS servers than Apache, but turning on IIS by default).  I suspect
  that most admins that are actually purposefully using IIS have long since 
patched
  their servers.  Most of these admins of these infected systems have no idea 
what
  to do about fixing a problem that they didn't even know that they had, so if 
you
  do contact them, they would probably appreciate info on how to fix their 
servers.
  They clearly aren't running any type of IDS or they would have discovered 
the unusual
  outbound traffic themselves.






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