[Freeswitch-users] What kind of attack is this?

Martin Cmelik martin.cmelik at gmail.com
Mon Oct 14 21:21:04 MSD 2013


Wouldnt be possible to have some IDS countermeasure and attack mitigation directly build in FS?
For example Snort have more than 100 signatures for SIP attacks, but Snort is resource intensive and also cant inspect encrypted traffic.

Thank you

S pozdravem / Best regards,
Martin Čmelík

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> On 14. 10. 2013, at 18:59, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Remember unless it gets blocked upstream the packet will still hit your firewall/server. Not FreeSWITCH sure, but it'll still consume some resources to receive, identify and block it. The scanner does not care that you're not responding, it'll continue to send anyway.
> 
> 
>> On 14 October 2013 15:57, Mimiko <vbvbrj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 14.10.2013 17:54, Ken Rice wrote:
>> > This is sipvicious, its a brute force scanner... See
>> > http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Fail2ban  on how to setup Fail2ban with
>> > FreeSWITCH to defeat this attack
>> 
>> Ken thank you. I am planning to set up Fail2ban. But for now need to
>> drop any packet from offending IP.
>> 
>> --
>> Mimiko desu.
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