RE: Abnormally high Sub-Seven attack rate increase

From: H C (keydet89at_private)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 17:17:12 PST

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    Eric,
    
    How did 'probes' from your post become 'attacks' in
    the subject line?
    --- James C Slora Jr <Jim.Sloraat_private> wrote:
    > Eric Kimminau wrote Tuesday, December 31, 2002 12:10
    > AM
    > 
    > > Is it just me or has the number of Sub-Seven
    > probes grown
    > > astronomically in the last 7 days? I am seeing on
    > average 25-30
    > > clients per day, each scanning 3 or 4 times each
    > up from only 1 or 2
    > > per day at most for the last several months.
    > 
    > DShield does not show an overall increase, but a
    > fair number of people have
    > experienced a huge growth in probes over the past
    > few days. I've gotten
    > several off-list correlations of individual sub7
    > scan increases from my post
    > on the incidents.org intrusions list.
    > 
    > It seems to be a network-specific phenomenon.
    > 
    > See the "27374 SubSeven Explosion" thread
    >
    http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/intrusions/2002/12/msg00256.html
    > 
    > - Jim
    > 
    > 
    >
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