brute force ssh attack
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Wed Apr 27 14:54:03 UTC 2005
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:50:57PM +0100, Nigel Wade wrote:
> Number of infections 0-49, number of sites 0-2 - over 3 years.
> Wow, it's speading like wildfire... help, help!
> It has no escalation mechanism, so can only infect ELF files to which the
> user infected has write permission.
> Threat ~0.
Looks like it spread to root from a user account in this case. Threat is
obviously somewhat greater than 0. Caution and good practices are still
required.
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