RE: Sobig.f surprise attack today
My questions is what were those servers.. Was the purpose to denial of service attack them? If so we just assisted that.. :) mark -- Mark Segal Director, Network Planning FCI Broadband Tel: 905-284-4070 Fax: 416-987-4701 http://www.fcibroadband.com Futureway Communications Inc. is now FCI Broadband -----Original Message----- From: netadm [mailto:netadm@infolink.com] Sent: August 22, 2003 3:50 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: Sobig.f surprise attack today
Update on 19:00 UTC When deadline for the attack was passed, one machine was still (somewhat) up. However, immediatly after the deadline, this machine (located in the USA) was totally swamped under network traffic. We've tried connecting to it, just like the virus does. We do this from three different sensors from three different machines in three different countries. We haven't been able to connect to it once. If we can't connect, neither can the viruses. So the attack failed. Whoa. We'll keep monitoring until 22:00 UTC. If we're not able to connect once, we can safely say that the attack was prevented. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Kerr [mailto:andrew_kerr@iamnos.ca] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:43 PM To: Jay Hennigan Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today Jay Hennigan wrote:
A few people pointed that out. By the time this message hits the list, it should be corrected.
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