full-disclosure - Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

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From: aditya.deshmukh at online.gateway.technolabs.net (Aditya, ALD [Aditya Lalit Deshmukh])
Subject: Possible First Crypto Virus Definitely Discovered!

> 
> Steve,
> 
> Sorry to say but it is not! I checked my incoming traffic again 
> this morning
> and the attack on port 443 is still coming in full steam ahead! I 
> don't know

COULDN'T THIS BE A SSL DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK? ssl requires quite a lot of resourses and if u have a web server running then it might be a dos attack other could you please post some pakets of the captured traffic and also the binary that is listsing on that port?

> what's going on, but I am about to block that port on my firewall. Some
> nitwit (probably the idiot that was here before I became IT Director)
> somehow, for some reason, deliberately opened port 443 on the firewalls!

there might be a vaild reason for the open port.

> I am beginning to think that this is the first wave of the new 
> coming global
> crypto-storm!
> 

get cover, perpare for the storm all/

-aditya

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