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One Million IP Addresses Used In Brute-Force Attack On A Bank (softpedia.com)
Cisco says in just one week in February they detected 1,127,818 different IP addresses being used to launch 744,361,093 login attempts on 220,758,340 different email addresses -- and that 93% of those attacks were directed at two financial institutions in a massive Account Takeover (ATO) campaign. An anonymous reader writes: Crooks used 993,547 distinct IPs to check login credentials for 427,444,261 accounts. For most of these attacks, the crooks used proxy servers, but also two botnets, one of compromised Arris cable modems, and one of ZyXel routers/modems. Most of these credentials have been acquired from public breaches or underground hacking forums. This happened before the recent huge data breaches such as MySpace, LinkedIn, Tumblr, and VK.com.
It's apparently similar to the stolen-credentials-from-other-sites attack that was launched against GitHub earlier this week.
It's apparently similar to the stolen-credentials-from-other-sites attack that was launched against GitHub earlier this week.
Didn't realize what IoT actually stands for.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
My own personal (as in, at home hosted on a cable modem) web server used to get these same kinds of distributed dictionary attacks, botnet attempts to gain access to whatever they can. There were times when I would see this type of thing almost once a month or so; then it started to taper off and I haven't seen it in some time. I figured the botnets were just doing other things (or had decomposed).
:)
And yes, I acknowledge that there is nothing important about my web server. I figured the botnets just occasionally go through every IP address they can find that accepts ssh connections and my number comes up every so often. I've never seen an IP address come up in both my web and ssh logs.
And yes, I know I can do more to prevent this. People offer up plenty of suggestions. Frankly I don't care, and I actually enjoy seeing tons of blocked ssh traffic in my logs from time to time. As you might expect the vast overwhelming majority of traffic is Chinese script kiddies attempting dictionary attacks as root; I don't care about those as I don't allow remote root. I find the distributed, phone book, and distributed phone book attacks much more interesting. They even give me a chance to tune up my cron jobs that parse my server logs
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
How incompetent do you have to be as a company to have THREE backdoors in your own router, intentional or accidental....
Agreed, the editors have really been dropping the ball for years. It takes them days to report on recent events.
Well...them IP addresses, they had to count them all. Now they know how many IPs it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
First, you should recheck your numbers. Second, Obama called it treasonous when Bush did it.
Money is a measure of effort required to get a unit of it. It is also like a claim on goods and services. It is a logical construct, but it is not meaningless. The construct has persisted for millennia as a result of the benefits it provides to individuals.
To a central bank which can have it printed, it can seem meaningless. And the effort required to obtain a unit of it by an agricultural field hand versus the CEO of a financial services company are obviously very different. Central banks can distribute it to desired companies via bond purchases and other enticements.