1,800 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
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  • Author: Christopher