[LUNI] New sshd attacks

[ed-luni at inkdroid.org]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:25:26AM -0500, Samir Faci wrote:
> this is still kinda of a lame attempt though... what Admin would allow
> a user to have "password" as their password.  I'm suprised no one
> wrote a brute force/ dictionary attach for ssh.

Granted, but there *are* many bad admins, and there are *many* linux
servers out there now. I highly doubt probes on this scale would be 
happening if there was not a payoff...kinda like 'Nigerian' spam.

I'm mainly curious if the virus has been isolated and classified (as it
were).

//Ed