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Botnet attack on http://vito.ho.ua from one of the Verizon IP addresses

A botnet attack on http://vito.ho.ua was indicated today from one of the Verizon IP addresses.

Multiple botnet bot or scanner tool scan and injection attempts for http://vito.ho.ua site were happening tonight.

Seems that was relatively advanced botnet as there were signs of scanning
for multiple popular web CMS vulnerabilities -

- content/wp-admin for Wordpress
- templates/subSilver/subSilver.cfg for phpBB
- update.php for Drupal
etc.

I've taken countermeasures and sent a report to the security@verizon.net , waiting for some response now.

Also checked a number of IP blacklisting modules for Drupal, found some weaknesses and the best solution IMHO.

See the IP blacklisting modules for Drupal review soon :)