Better call the feds. The terrorist kiddies are threating national security again.
Tony Paloma wrote: > A player sent a message on my server early this morning just before it > crashed: > > ŠŦΣǺП−ƤΘζĨČĒ>ŊĬ� : : /me SERVER H4CK3D BY TEAM N2o-->steam police!!! MORE > INFO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENGINE SOURCE SUCK !!! > > Probably related. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GS > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 11:12 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Server Lag Caused By Possible Exploit > > Wel US-CERT themselves constantly say that they wish more incidents were > reported. We have a person here who has made a cyber threat and acted upon > it on a distributed system hosted in the United States. Does it matter that > the system is used to play a game? This person has likely conducted other > attacks in the past, and will most likely move on to "bigger" things in the > future if left unchecked. > > We're not expecting an immediate task force to suit up Team America style > and go after this guy busting down doors or anything close to that, we're > just reporting it to the ISPs involved, and the Gov't Agency that has > jurisdiction. It's the SOP for a cyber attack and should be followed by any > organization who falls victim to one. > > In the meantime we value comments and suggestions like those from SakeFox > and DontWannaName. Thank you, we will be implementing those > fixes/plugins. If there are any other suggestions out there on how to > tighten security for TF2 servers, please keep them coming. > > Best Regards > > > > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Midnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Please tell me you didn't waste US-CERT's time on this. I find that hard >> to believe and a really bad idea. Although I bet they would get a huge >> laugh out of it. >> >> >> GS wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm a member of a gaming community that runs a few dozen TF2 and L4D >>> servers. Today one of our most popular TF2 servers was and continues to >>> >> be >> >>> attacked by someone who holds some unknown grudge against our community. >>> This person has claimed credit for the attacks through a posting on our >>> message board. >>> >>> It appears that the method which this attacker or group of attackers is >>> using is limited to an in game exploit. No other server instances, or >>> >> other >> >>> server services are affected other than a single game server using a >>> >> single >> >>> core of a quad core win32 server hosted in a datacenter. Bandwidth use >>> >> is >> >>> normal during attacks. >>> >>> Are there any unpatched game exploits that anyone in the HLDS list >>> >> community >> >>> is aware of that can cause a server to increasingly lag up to the point >>> >> of >> >>> unplayability? The effects are similar to previous exploits that Valve >>> patched earlier this year. >>> >>> We have contacted our ISP, the ISP of the poster who took credit for the >>> attack (a whois lookup appears to lead to a proxy server in Chicago, IL), >>> and the US Dept of Homeland Security (US-CERT). However we would like to >>> >> be >> >>> able to prevent these attacks as the investigation by the authorities >>> progresses. >>> >>> If there are any suggestions, no matter how unlikely, we would be forever >>> grateful for any help with this problem. >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Jason >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> >> please visit: >> >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
