>
>There has definately been a change in the original form of the attacks from
># GET /default.ida?NNNNN -snip- NN%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a  HTTP/1.0
>to
># GET /default.ida?XXXXX -snip- XX%u9090% -snip- 0%u00=a  HTTP/1.0
>The second packet is also much shorter (with less X's), although the tail is
>the same.
>
>The increase in traffic over the last few days has been marked.
>
>Sept  -        0 hits
>1 Aug  -       3 hits  0.1 per hr
>2 Aug -        22 hits 0.9/hr
>3 Aug -        33 Hits 1.4/hr
>4 Aug -        41 Hits 1.7/hr
>5 Aug -        167 Hits        6.9/hr
>6 Aug -        79 Hits 10.0/hr (only 8 hrs of data)
>
>I can see this is going to be a real problem in the upcoming weeks.
>
>I have noticed on the end of each access in the log, Apache gives "404 205"
>404 I guess means page not found, but on two occassions it looks like
>it gave a "200 - ".  Strange.  I thought a valid access was 200.
>
>Ian
>

Code Reds Mark II and III have already been identified, doing much more 
maicious things and spreading with better randomisation

Hopefully a "cheese worm" equivalent will be relased to stomp on this before we 
get to 20 Jul and the biggest DDoS in hiustory kicks off.

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