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Re: a record?
- From: Rob Thomas
- Date: Mon Nov 14 19:48:14 2005
Hi, NANOGers.
Efficient or not, we do see scanning activity on IPv6. We've seen
IPv6 botnets, compromised hosts on IPv6 used as IRC bounces, and
even one EU-based warez crew that enabled IPv6 tunnels on the
hosts they compromised. They used the IPv6 tunnels as their
management plane.
While IPv6 obviously presents a huge address space, the miscreants
don't have to scan all of it, or compromise much more than a few
devices on it, to reap a reward. Just enough is good enough.
I'll take a pina colada anyway. :)
Thanks,
Rob.
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Rob Thomas
Team Cymru
http://www.cymru.com/
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