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Re: your help is needed
this is a good business plan too
Re: your help is needed
Protection rackets are pretty old business techniques.
But if the IPs are already reported as being malicious, then it's not necessarily targeting you but probably a broadscale probe of lots and lots of websites in order to find vulnerabilities in order to hack, or else simply a test run prior to an actual DDoS attack by some sort of bot net.
But if the IPs are already reported as being malicious, then it's not necessarily targeting you but probably a broadscale probe of lots and lots of websites in order to find vulnerabilities in order to hack, or else simply a test run prior to an actual DDoS attack by some sort of bot net.
Re: your help is needed
why would they download the installer again and again every 10 seconds? Surely there's no vulnerability to exploit there
anyway, probably these guys are recruited by the devil to do senseless damage for no profit
anyway, probably these guys are recruited by the devil to do senseless damage for no profit
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It's like the cold callers. What is the point of 'phoning a number, and then saying nothing? I don't know whether to feel annoyed, or sorry for such sad people.
Re: your help is needed
If they can crash the webhost, or cause some sort of memory issues to break its security so they can then get an inroad to start sifting through other data, they will do it.
Who knows? Could be a test - could be they are fishing for information on other targets and just taking a chance that maybe they are a customer of yours. Could be they already have information from another source on one or more targets that made a purchase from you, so they are trying to now get your customer list to expand their data mining to other servers / service providers / developers.
And so many, many more possibilities as to *why* they are / were doing it.
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I wouldn't feel too sorry for them. They get paid to do this.
But, a lot of robocalls are now exactly that - calls made by robots. The dead silence is a trick to get the other party to interact with the robot, who records the interactions as proof that the line they have called is a live line with a human at the other end - so that number can then be targeted later on by whomever.
If a number I do not recognize calls me, it goes to my VM, I do not answer. With Caller ID being as good as it is these days here in the states, I can easily discern if I need to answer a call or not - anyone that needs to get a hold of me already has my number, and I know who they are - and in case of emergency, it's highly unlikely they will be calling me from an unknown number. Everyone else gets my Google Voice number, not my actual number, so a lot of those spam calls and robocalls and spam SMS and robo-sent SMS get ferried to GV and keeps my real number (mostly) free and clear of such non-sense.
And yes, this pertains to my land line as well - I have a GV # for that number as well. It's not as easy to set up now as it was back when GV numbers first went public, but since I got in that early, I have that benefit.
Re: your help is needed
Here is another thriving business plan.
Microsoft says that "password spray attacks" are on the increase. Details at Protect your business from password sprays with Microsoft DART recommendations
and
Advancing Password Spray Attack Detection
Microsoft says that "password spray attacks" are on the increase. Details at Protect your business from password sprays with Microsoft DART recommendations
and
Advancing Password Spray Attack Detection
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these guys need psychotherapy for sure
now they are hitting the download page once a second
at least they cannot download anything so the impact is not as bad as it used to be
I give up!
now they are hitting the download page once a second
at least they cannot download anything so the impact is not as bad as it used to be
I give up!
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It may be a semi-malicious attempt to bring your servers down because script kiddies, but it could very well be something a lot more sinister.
I hope things have cooled down since then.
I hope things have cooled down since then.
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no, this has been going on non stop for 2 years! And it doesn't look like ending anytime soon