Exodus: this is bad

Tue Nov 17 02:34:00 UTC 1998

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Richard Irving wrote:
>   This appears to be a concerted effort. This type of attack
> is propogating to new origin IP's by the hour. There seems to
> be a pattern forming....

Has anyone considered that this might be a worm?

The attacked hosts have all exhibited the same characteristics: stock Red
Hat 5.1 install, running (probably) the stock named that came with it,
which is a known vulnerable bind release. There are a -lot- of these boxen
out there.

Plus, the mechanical attacks on particular ports.

This sounds fairly automated to me...but hey, what do I know? ;-)

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