On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 18:14, Edwin Dicker wrote: > I must say I'm very happy with this thread. It teaches me, and probably oher > some more about SSH. > > But I was wondering , has anyone set-up a machine already as bate ? I'm very > curious what this hacker wants to do with this compromised machine :) > > Edwin There are some people that setup honey pots for just that purpose. I believe there is even some packages designed to simulate a system so you don't loose complete control of a box. The idea of the honey pot is while they are hacking it you can monitor and collect data on the hackers recording everything they do and getting copies of the files they upload. The fact that such a box normally has what appears some known exploits just makes it easy for them to get in to instead of into the real boxes you are trying to protect. As to what they want to do? They probably are either setting up a spam bot army. But those are mostly windows boxes. A linux box is probably used as another platform to find more boxes to exploit. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx "If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry." -- Chekhov
