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Someone attempted to compromise my home router last week using CHARGEN. Can you imagine!
by RupertSalt 8mo ago
Someone attempted to compromise my home router last week using CHARGEN. Can you imagine!
- direwolf20 8mo agoAttempted to compromise, or just port scanned?
- RupertSalt 8mo agoGood call-out! Yes, while the router labels it as "DOS Attack" it is probably a simple port-scan! However, anyone who knows the nature of CHARGEN would recognize that a singular successful connection could immediately blossom into a somewhat lackluster DDOS, as the chargen service risked consuming CPU and network resources unnecessarily. chargen has been also aggressively deprecated, far more than telnetd, since it was a non-essential service. I'd like to know how many servers are voluntarily running chargen on the public Internet today. A port-scan for chargen is more likely a comprehensive port-scan that is just attempting to identify and fingerprint anything that may have been established on that port. It would be less surprising to find, like, ssh or a web server occupying that space today.