full-disclosure - Re: lots of connections to 64.40.117.19 port 80

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:20:20 -0400
From: "Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele@...hmail.com>
To: joey.mengele@...hmail.com, valdis.kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: lots of connections to 64.40.117.19 port 80

Valdis,

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:11:41 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:

>Yes, but although we have evidence that a DDoS of some sort is 
>underway,
>we have *ZERO*, *ZIP*, *ZILTCH*, *GOOSE-EGG* indication that an 
>XSS was
>involved.  For all you know, it was an iframe injection into 
>clients that
>visited a compromised webserver that downloaded the DDoS tool.
>

Where is the proof of this iframe injection that you claim? I doubt 
such a technique even exists.

>Sounds more like a "textbook case of calling it an XSS because 
>when you only
>have a hammer everything looks like a nail".

I find this idea flawed.

J

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