full-disclosure - Re: Brute force attack

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Message-ID: <14926.1202767850@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:10:50 -0500
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To: Peter Dawson <slash.pd@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Brute force attack - need your advice

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:57:40 EST, Peter Dawson said:

> WTF is worth the time/$$$  to intrude into abilashpraveen.com eh ??

If you're a black hat, it's often worth a *LOT* to see your actual high-value
target say:

"WTF is abilashpraveen.com and how come they just hacked us?"

Remember - an uninteresting host has actual value to a black hat - everything
from a throw-away jump point for launching an attack, to sending spam, to
hosting the websites the spam points back to, and other creative uses.  And
the *more* uninteresting it is, the *more* likely that it's running on autopilot
and the hacking won't be noticed....

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