Hi,

They obviously set things so I could not reboot or find out what is going
on.  The first thing I discovered was that they had change the index.html
file on the web server - I thought something had gone astray so rebooted and
that is when it all started.

I never surfed the net as root....and thought I had the box locked down -
only open ports were the normal ones (80, 21, 22) etc.  I have no idea how
they got in but maybe it was through SSH (I might have a older version that
could be hacked).  There was no telnet or anything like that.

I still can't believe it....

Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Robson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux box hanging on startup


> Hi Dan,
>
> Wow, that's amazing that it happened so quickly, and a very annoying hack,
> with symptoms the same as a failure to boot correctly.  It would have been
> worse if you did not find out.
>
> Also, did you surf the net as "root"???
>
> Brian
> ====================================================
>
> At 11:45 AM 9/07/03 +1000, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Not sure if this helps anyone but so far I have found:
> >
> >/var/log/message -> /dev/null
> >/var/log/wtmp -> /dev/null
> >
> >They also created an HTML page called services.html and in it:
> >
> >"YOU WERE HACKED!!!Welcome to ParadoX's Web`s Page"
> >
> >there is also a whole load of other crap (some in Spanish/French or
similar)
> >
> >I am just about to re-install the OS
> >
> >dan
>
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