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Do any of you bother writing abuse emails?
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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About 20 years ago I was running a phpnuke site on my home server and had someone doing the same thing as you describe. Hundreds of attempts over and over all night long. I went through the logs and saw it was someone on intelsat (I think, it's been a long time) internet from Africa. I called intelsat or whoever the company was and talked to their system admin that was on call. Within 20 mins of getting off the phone the attack stopped and never happened again. They guy I talked to was really nice and seemed like he was happy to be able to help me.
Why the f*** is someone using Intelsat for that. That must be so fucking expensive (for the victim of the bot) and slow for the hacker.
I wondered the same thing at the time it had to have been ungodly expensive unless it was a stolen device. I can't remember for sure if it was intelsat or one of the other companies that was around at the time but it was a sat connection. I was also running that webserver on a really bad dsl line. I lived right next door to the phone company CO but was at the end of the line. I had to go with an independent isp because the phone company said it was too far and wouldn't work. It did work but was super unreliable.
Very likely a stolen device. Or a mining camp with shared access.
I can feel the heart attack they had when opening their phone bill next month....
Holy shit!
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a loooong time. I remember running PHP-Nuke sites on PHP 4.
I used to really like running it. I had quite a lot of aggregated content on that site.