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attackers most likely used an unpatched security issue in the FTP daemon

If they don't know exactly how the server was compromised I don't understand how they can know the vulnerability is limited to software downloaded within a certain timeframe. The added backdoor yes, but the vulnerability that allowed the attack to succeed is still unaccounted for.

Or am I missing something?



how they can know the vulnerability is limited to software downloaded within a certain timeframe.

It isn't. The bug has been in ProFTPd for years, here's the details:

http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521

If anyone is running a ProFTPd version older than 1.3.3c then you should act now. Your host is open to remote code execution.




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