[funsec] Attacked by Bank of America!!

[Danny McPherson]

On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:53 AM, RandallM wrote:

> Hi
> Well this is interesting. Read the news on "Anonymous" attacking Bank
> of Americal yesterday morning.
> (https://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/10542-Bank-of-America-Hit-By-Anonymous-DDoS-Attack.html)
> 
> Came to work, a small production marketing plant, and while doing
> morning network work checks begin to notice various "port scans",
> UDP/ICMP requests. AND THEN..BAM! for over 5 hrs went to no internet
> until I was able to get ATT to block such to our broadcast IP from the
> backbone.
> 
> The mystery is the bank of America part or spoof of. Here is two of
> the IP's used that I was able to capture with Wireshark:
> 
> Internet Protocol, Src: wwwui.global.bankofamerica.com (171.159.228.173),
> Internet Protocol, Src: 165.48.113.48 (165.48.113.48),

Backscatter from source-spoofed attacks?  Very common, actually..

-danny


> Anyone else have this happen or know of someone?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> been great, thanks
> RandyM
> a.k.a System
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