Yeah, admittedly I haven't done much other than mess around with some
blacklists on this one.

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote:

> Instill some basic network security. I block input to potentially harmful
> ports, but a better way is to only allow input on ports you want.
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> *From: *"Jason McKemie" <[email protected]>
> *To: *[email protected]
> *Sent: *Tuesday, September 6, 2016 12:14:31 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik Possibly Compromised
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> Well, disabling remote requests dropped it off steeply.  I'll have to look
> into that.  Is that enabled by default?
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Bruce Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Good point.
>>
>> On 09/06/2016 10:11 AM, Jason McKemie wrote:
>>
>> I'd think that I would see some internal network activity if this were
>> the case though.  Also, the source IPs appear to be from all over the world.
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Bruce Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> In  my experience, that's usually your mobile devices nattering with the
>>> mother ship, like doing backups and uploading recent pictures. iPhones are
>>> especially bad about this.
>>>
>>> On 09/06/2016 09:57 AM, Jason McKemie wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I've noticed some strange behavior on my home connection (Comcast).
>>>> The Mikrotik that I am using shows a constant Tx on the WAN port of around
>>>> 3-5Mbps and between 200-300pps, Rx is just a few kbps.  This activity
>>>> appears to be strictly on the WAN port.  If I disable a firewall rule that
>>>> accepts input, the activity ceases - but devices behind the router lose
>>>> connectivity.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?  I've got all IP services disabled except winbox, which is
>>>> restricted to my local network.
>>>> wbr>8!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> !DSPAM:2,57cef8d652678869110723!
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