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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:05:55 +0400
From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: pool@...ts.ntp.org, linuxbrad@...il.com, team@...urity.debian.org,
secalert@...hat.com
Subject: Re: shodan.io actively infiltrating ntp.org IPv6 pools
for scanning purposes
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Luca BRUNO <lucab@...ian.org> wrote:
> [cross-posted to pool-ntp and oss-sec]
>
> Hi,
> while reviewing network logs this morning I spotted some anomalies related
> to scan probes, ntp.org pools and IPv6.
>
> It looks like Brad already observed and blogged about this some days ago,
> but I haven't seen this discussed in the usual ntp-pools, Debian and
> oss-sec ML, so I'm reposting this here:
>
> http://netpatterns.blogspot.de/2016/01/the-rising-sophistication-of-network.html
>
> In summary, some machines (which seem related to the shodan.io scanning
> project)
> are actively participating in pool.ntp.org as IPv6 endpoints.
> However, clients connecting to them for NTP timesync, are subsequently
> scanned
> by probes originating from *.scan6.shodan.io hosts.
>
>
Shouldn't we have some kind of policy for operators participating in
pool.ntp.org to prevent such issues ?
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