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Subject: Mirai Botnet DNS query
From: Marc SCHAEFER
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.security
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:41 UTC

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From: schaefer@alphanet.ch (Marc SCHAEFER)
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.security
Subject: Mirai Botnet DNS query
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:41:51 -0000 (UTC)
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Message-ID: <u8qu7v$6bt$1@shakotay.alphanet.ch>
Injection-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:41:51 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: shakotay.alphanet.ch; posting-account="schaefer";
logging-data="6525"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@alphanet.ch"; posting-host="634ce6c9682d817d72f6177875e2bb4f.nnrp.alphanet.ch"
User-Agent: tin/2.4.3-20181224 ("Glen Mhor") (UNIX) (Linux/4.19.0-24-amd64 (x86_64))
Cancel-Lock: sha256:iOuzSYkqilxpIaVsd9O3R+mBa5RSAERTDzgSr98nL2s= sha256:dJb+8ZEiLXS/jd7QUBNQJxIp+ZtLAUxlrnCQOewHgCA=

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Hello,

Does anyone know what the gosec.me domain was? A malware seems to try
to DNS A-resolve this and fails (SERVFAIL).

Maybe this was a DDoS?

Thank you for any pointers. I am just interested, it has no real value
to know that.

Subject: Re: Mirai Botnet DNS query
From: Anonymous
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.security
Organization: RetroBBS
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:31 UTC
References: 1

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From: Anonymous@rocksolidbbs.com (Anonymous)
Newsgroups: rocksolid.shared.security
Subject: Re: Mirai Botnet DNS query
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:31:27 +0000
Organization: RetroBBS
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MIME-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Info: i2pn2.org;
logging-data="3272875"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org";
posting-account="qk6pvs/sIyKYNRNFdjVS+ghlZZkCUq7cWs+7p7kaLpU";
User-Agent: Rocksolid Light 0.8.5
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-13) on i2pn2.org
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X-Rslight-Posting-User: b47da4f5d75d2e6d622c05424a406bf5739a21a2

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Marc SCHAEFER wrote:

> Hello,

> Does anyone know what the gosec.me domain was? A malware seems to try
> to DNS A-resolve this and fails (SERVFAIL).

> Maybe this was a DDoS?

> Thank you for any pointers. I am just interested, it has no real value
> to know that.

Wasn't that an IT security site?

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rocksolid / Security / Re: Mirai Botnet DNS query

Subject	Author
Mirai Botnet DNS query	Marc SCHAEFER
Re: Mirai Botnet DNS query	Anonymous