Re: Found, a new rootkit

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:39 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 13:20, Gene Heskett wrote:

They use these botnets to distribute spam, launch DDOS, or whatever
else their imagination came come up with. Either of those would
contribute to an increase in bandwidth usage.

Humm, we were in fact subjected to a DDOS attack early last sunday
morning, which lead to the traffic servers demise & rebuild.
Got us listed at spamcop & our mail died.

Or more likely, your box was participating in a DDOS. Do
you have any idea what exploit might have been used to
install the programs you found?
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My money is on sshd - somebody with a weak password.

Craig

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