Subj : Hits And Hack Attempts
To   : Daryl Stout
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jul 09 2015 11:22 am


08 Jul 15 17:39, you wrote to me:

 ML>> DS>   I guess they have nothing better to do.

 ML>> the thing is that no one is sitting there doing this manually... it
 ML>> is all b done by bots and occasionally the operator will look over
 ML>> the results... the don't care about the remote system... only if they
 ML>> can get in and be able to it as another bot in their herd... possibly
 ML>> scrounge some personal info off it...

 DS> Considering the rapid nature of repeated attempts to get in by
 DS> different addresses, I would say it was automated.

it is definitely automated... they simply point the bots to a range of 
addresses and let'em go...

 DS> At times, they've filled up all 4 nodes of the telnet side, and no one
 DS> can get in, until one of them drops off.

yup... there's no telling if they are all from one botnet or not... no way to 
tell if there's one controller behind them, either...

)\/(ark

.... We all go a little mad sometimes.
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