the only hit on google for /that/ string. is /this/ post
On 9/30/05, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My first guess would be that this is strictly an exploratory probe
> form posting. The script drops in some sort of long string as an
> alert and then returns in a few days to see if it's popped up anywhere
> on the site or in Google. By recording the unique strings locally,
> they will be able to automatically detect sites that don't strip
> javascript and are vulnerable to a javascript Cross Site Scripting
> attack. Sure, this message just says gibberish, but the next attack
> might say "Please enter your username and password below".
>
> Interestingly, by posting this to cf-community you may trigger their
> scripts if it shows up in Google. Their automated systems would be
> very likely to associate your site with HOF's archive and then a human
> would be dispatched to see if the correlation was worthy of further
> investigation.
>
> I also emailed a info-sec friend of mine to see if he has any opinions
> about it...
>
> -Cameron
>
> On 9/30/05, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > we had some script kiddies trying to hack a form using some kind of
> > automated attack. the common thread of all the attacks is an attempt to
> > launch something like this either using JS or VBScript:
> >
> > alert("SPIXSSZ2lLQ1Zpa0VmMENMRGJTV0I2c3lndz09YWRkcmVzcwSSXIPS")
> >
> > Unfortunately for their attack, the form just saves to a text file.
> >
> > Anyone know how to translate this little message? I don't even know what
> > the encoding is...
> >
> >
>
>
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