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Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack

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Re: Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack

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Post by itistoday2 »

cosud wrote: post #16

Wow a Romanian script kiddie at work. This kind of modus operandus is so 2004. Nice tool showcased though.

(Since HN isn't letting me post a reply under chippy1337's comment, I'll post it here.)

I found chippy's comment interesting and helpful and don't know why it was downvoted to hell while other "+1"-style comments (that didn't add any value) are left as-is: https://twitter.com/taoeffect/status/464090445677481985

Re: Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack

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Post by security_guy »

salibhai wrote: post #2

Genius idea. Love it. Shared it with my favourite web host. I hope more security companies think like you do and do this type of reverse-phishing on the bad guys ;)

There is a company called Smart Honeypot (http://smarthoneypot.com) offering this service. I believe they are using combination of these techniques to track attackers. The point is to make so much of these honeypot so economically make it difficult for attackers to freely run these scripted attacks. Imagine out of 100 attempts for SSH, 90% be a honeypot. This will massively waste attacker's time and effort.
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