Ask HN: Most interesting cyber attack that you faced in your career?
I spent most of today alleviating a cyber attack on one of the sites of our clients, which was attacked by a Chinese botnet to send spam emails. It was nothing extraordinarily clever and probably a result of some automated crawler looking for vulnerabilities.
But it was a very interesting thing to work on and resolve eventually. It got me thinking about other people's experiences with cyber attacks. Some interesting stories and experiences to share?
What was the most interesting cyber attack that you dealt with in your career?
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[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 23.9 ms ] threadIn short, about 10 years ago, I hosted slightly cumstomised instances of something called ViciDial. It's call center software. I neglected to implement DOS protection. And a botnet started trying to brute force REGISTERs to the SIP service. It completely clogged up the measly 100Mb pipe I was renting out of the data center.
I had no KVM. No remote reboot. No external firewall. Stupid, stupid - stupid!
I just sat there for 2 hours until they finally finished.
..ugh
It was 2003 and I was working on various test servers for a client. A new to me (old junky box in truth) server was put in my office area. A few days later people (only a couple of us there at a time) were complaining about the internet speed and if I was having any issues. I didn't notice anything, yahoo seemed to open up quick enough.
I was not a networking guy. However, I got to noticing a lot of traffic on the network. People kept complaining about speed issues during the week. The Internet was, now that I think about it, a little sloooowwww. That blinky nic light on that server sure looks busy! Whoa!!! It is infected with the Code Red II or Slammer/Saphire worm!
Opps!
Unplugged. Everything okay now.