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Re: Weird SSH attack last night and this morning (still ongoing)

Subject: Re: Weird SSH attack last night and this morning (still ongoing)
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:17:19 -0400
On Wed, 07 May 2008 10:53:35 PDT, Erin Carroll said:

When I saw this hitting my servers last night I thought it an odd attack
pattern but surmised it was either a targeted slow attack with spoofed IP's

Unless your operating system is *very* broken and doesn't do RFC1948 
randomization
of the TCP Initial Sequence Number, using a spoofed ID just gets you a bunch
of sockets stuck in half-open state (SYN received, SYN/ACK send to the spoofed
source, no ACK back).  If it's gotten through the 3-packet handshake, you may
as well assume that it's a real IP address (or the attacker has already pwned
enough infrastructure that they can see the SYN/ACK you send, in which case
they control the horizontal and vertical and you're now in an Outer Limits
episode... ;)

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