Hi, On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 05:14:19PM -0500, Jerry Shenk wrote: > There are a number of utilities to do that. yes, there are a number of utilities which will brute force POP3-accounts (Hydra, Brutus, ...), but I was wondering about these attacks, cause we saw the same attacks (only against the mentioned accounts) from different sources (so I thougt there might be a new tool or worm spreading). > The more important question is who was trying? That doesn't sounds like a > 'random' scan to me. It was a random scan against mail servers in one of our Class-B-networks. -- Tom Fischer Tom.Fischerat_private-stuttgart.de RUS-CERT University of Stuttgart Tel:+49 711 685-8076 / -5898 (fax) Allmandring 30, D-70550 Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Powerful Anti-Spam Management and More... SurfControl E-mail Filter puts the brakes on spam, viruses and malicious code. Safeguard your business critical communications. Download a free 30-day trial: http://www.securityfocus.com/SurfControl-incidents
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