Top attacks used by hackers – March 2008
March 17th, 20081,800 attacks were registered throughout the United States throughout the last month, almost 20% higher than the previous month. Foreign based attacks showed a decline of 4.5% resulting in over 2,800 attacks originating from a Foreign IP space.
Top 5 attacks used by U.S. hackers
- Cisco IOS HTTP Server HTML auto-view exploit
- Hacktool FxScanner detection
- PerlCal CGI reconnaissance directory traversal
- PHPNuke reconnaissance directory traversal
- Cisco IOS denial of service attack using non-standard protocol
Top 5 attacks used by foreign hackers
- Generic File Inclusion Attack
- Mambo register_globals Emulation Layer Overwrite
- HTTP overflow attack
- phpBB Activity Module File Inclusion
- WebDAV Overflow Attempt
Author: Christopher

