full-disclosure - Re: SSH scans, i caught one

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Message-ID: <4CE7D7B3.9060607@obit.nl>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:14:11 +0100
From: Marco van Berkum <marco@...t.nl>
To: Robin <robin@...ec.net>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: SSH scans, i caught one

On 11/20/2010 02:58 PM, Robin wrote:
> MIPS is very common in routers - most home ones I've seen are MIPS. As
> for purpose, it's a good place to DDoS from, because it's very hard to
> detect. It's also a very nice place to sniff passwords from, as you get
> a whole network's traffic passing through, and it's extremely hard to
> detect.

Most homerouters I've seen are ARM, I actually never had a MIPS :)
Guess its time to setup Qemu-MIPS to see what it does exactly.

And maybe name it? If it's not a already known botnet that is.

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