Tag: SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green

Scans for “adminer”, (Wed, Mar 18th)

A very popular target of attackers scanning our honeypots is “phpmyadmin”. phpMyAdmin is a script first released in the late 90s, before many security concepts had been discovered. It's rich history of vulnerabilities made it a favorite target. Its alternative, “adminer”,…

IPv4 Mapped IPv6 Addresses, (Tue, Mar 17th)

Yesterday, in my diary about the scans for “/proxy/” URLs, I noted how attackers are using IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses to possibly obfuscate their attack. These addresses are defined in RFC 4038. These addresses are one of the many transition mechanisms…