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Re: SSH scans...

Subject: Re: SSH scans...
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 14:48:11 -0700
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Raymond Lillard wrote:
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| PS   I'm curious, has anybody heard of these scans
|      compromising a machine, ever?

Yes.  A colleague of mine had a machine with SSH open to the world.  A
user account called 'test' with a password of 'test' was used in one of
these scans to gain access (I have no idea why he had an account like
that on the server in the first place... :0/).  When the scan occured,
whatever bot was being used to scan just noted the availability of the
account.  The account was then used several days later for an
interactive login with what looked like a live person, who installed an
IRC server and an FTP server (on non-privileged ports).

- --Ben
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