Re: slapper worm varient "cinik"

From: Mark (markat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 08:16:26 PDT

  • Next message: James P. Kinney III: "Re: slapper worm varient "cinik""

    Which brings up another point.  It uses TCP to infect, but UDP for the peer
    communication, right?  UDP is so easily spoofed, what's to keep me from
    falsely pretending that I am an infected machine at Company X via a simple
    UDP spoof, causing the peers to DoS Company X, essentially DoSsing anyone I
    wished anonymously?
    
    -Mark
    
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Anton A. Chuvakin" <antonat_private>
    To: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinneyat_private>
    Cc: <incidentsat_private>
    Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 2:38 PM
    Subject: Re: slapper worm varient "cinik"
    
    
    > James and all,
    >
    > >Apparently the intruder got rather upset I spoiled his fun and about 15
    > >minutes after I shut him out, I was a victim of a udp-based DOS attack.
    > Actually, it wasn't an intruder; the UDP flood you are experiencing is a
    > consequence of a worm network design. Most likely the worm managed to join
    > the network before you shut it down and now its peers are trying to access
    > your machine.
    >
    > For more info got to http://isc.incidents.org/analysis.html?id=169 and
    > http://isc.incidents.org/analysis.html?id=167
    >
    > Best,
    > --
    >   Anton A. Chuvakin, Ph.D., GCIA
    >      http://www.chuvakin.org
    >    http://www.info-secure.org
    >
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