Re: Increase in SSH attacks as of announcement of rtld bug

At 08:44 PM 12/1/2009, Brett Glass wrote:
>At 12:09 PM 12/1/2009, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>>http://isc.sans.org/trends.html
>>and
>>http://isc.sans.org/port.html
>>
>>Do not seem to show any increase.
>
>Do those stats account for the fact that the attackers may first be 
>fingerprinting servers to see if they're running FreeBSD?

No idea. But looking at the logs of various hosts targeted by 
distributed scanners that hit my network, they dont seem to be that 
intelligent. There is no reason it couldnt be done, but I havent seen 
it yet here anyways.

         ---Mike

>--Brett

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