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Am I part of a botnet or hack?

(FYI: my network has been hacked before...see other thread). I have 2 routers daisy-chained. Router #1 hosts Windows PCs and a VOIP box on subnet 172. Its LAN4 goes to WAN of Router#2, which serves ...
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History of RAT + Strange networking recently… was I hacked again?

(FYI, my PCs were infected and remote accessed in the past by a friend/stalker, & I’ve reinstalled the network few times already. Recently added Router#2 to double-NAT). My network has 2 routers ...
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2answers
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How can I find the source of traffic allegedly originating from my IP address?

I have a problem that has been going on for at least 6 weeks. I have Time Warner for my Internet provider and some websites hosted at GoDaddy. From what GoDaddy tells me the reason I can not view ...
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4answers
310 views

Has my network/computer been breached?

I'm not sure if this is the right site to ask, so I apologise if it isn't, but here goes. A while ago I started noticing some odd behaviour. My Gmail account was compromised, it seemed, and I had to ...
2
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2answers
155 views

Analyzing Network Anomalies for Malicious events

For a network security project we are listing to our network traffic of about 50-60 hosts. We aim at identifying malicious event within our network traffic by identifying network anomalies. Our main ...
2
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1answer
72 views

Seeing outboud connections to random domains, how do I isolate the app responsible?

Last night I loaded up Fiddler2 to do a little debugging and I saw three connections to domains like hghefhhig How can I go about isolating the application responsible? I was thinking possibly ...
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How serious is a local virus in terms of network security

I work at an insurance company in the U.S. My colleague got a notification on his machine of a possible virus (through the virus scanner that is installed by default on all machines). He called up the ...
2
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1answer
242 views

What is known about the sirefef/zeroaccess malware/botnet?

There appears to be an increase in p2p communication among botnets that has been attributed to the sirefef/zeroaccess malware botnet. What is known on this particular threat?
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Malware that uses http as a covert channel

I'm working on a http traffic analyzer and I need a collection of malware, which uses http as a way to get commands and respond, to analyze their network behaviour. Is there any database of malware, ...
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1answer
240 views

DNS query through squid? [closed]

My IDS picked up our squid proxy server doing a dynamic DNS request. I wasn't aware squid passed DNS requests from the client to the internal DNS server. Is this possible? Snort Alert: ET POLICY ...
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1answer
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In Metasploit, how to use a custom exe as payload?

Question was once on a mailing list but wasn't answered. I want to use a custom exe as a payload in metasploit. For example when I use exploit/multi/browser/java_atomicreferencearray and want to ...
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3answers
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Can home routers get infected?

I am behind a router(linksys that runs dd wrt on it) and I was infected with sality. I'm curious, can my router get infected too? If yes, how can I remove the infection? I used the search bar but ...
2
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1answer
138 views

Can a bad guy be judged for gaining access to sensitive information?

Assuming a hacker has sent to somebody a malware. It's a trojan (digitally signed by TeamViewer) which runs automatically when windows starts up and sends the login info to a web site using GET ...
13
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3answers
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Recommendations for honeypot software

A couple of us wanted to setup a honeypot/honeynet with the goal of learning; not planned to be in a production environment. What's a good recommendation for a high interaction or low interaction ...
4
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2answers
382 views

Has anyone else seen commands embedded in an ICMP echo request?

My IPS recently detected a type 8 ICMP packet (echo request) with an unusual payload. The echo request command a fragment of a command that looked like part of a route add. Here's a PCAP of the ICMP ...
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2answers
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Malware known to use port knocking to evade detection by network scanners?

Are there any known cases of malware in the wild that utilize port knocking on a backdoor to evade detection by network scanners?