Re: Recent Increase in Port 139 Activity

From: maggieat_private
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 16:58:29 PDT

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    Does look like NetBIOS WinNuke.  I caught one on Monday from a
    houston.rr.com address.
    
    MM
    
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    On 9/7/2001, at 4:42 PM, Harlan S. Barney, Jr. <hsbarneyat_private>
    wrote: 
    
    >This is likely NetBIOS Port Probe.
    >
    >They started up in mid August.  They were a pain last August and
    >September.
    >
    >I see them from the Road Runner network.  RR has not yet admitted that
    >there is a problem.  
    >
    >Most firewalls will probably keep they out.  They are really only a
    >problem to Windows OS machines with sharing open.
    >
    >John Campbell wrote:
    >> 
    >> In the last week, I've started seeing one to several port sweeps per
    day on
    >> port 139, of a particular nature.  Typically the sweep will hit .1
    to .255
    >> of a 24 bit net mask sized address block (generally called, "Class
    C"
    >> although this can be erroneous) four times.  Have found nothing
    written on
    >> any new worms targetting this port.  Source machines are largely
    North
    >> American.  Anyone heard or have ideas about what's going on?  My
    perimeter
    >> firewall's rejecting this traffic, so I get a log entry but no
    packet detail
    >> (yet.)
    >> 
    >> John Campbell, Information Security Engineer
    >> Washington School Information Processing Cooperative
    >>  (WSIPC)
    >> E-mail: jcampbellat_private
    >> 
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