[asterisk-users] PBX hacked: why hundred of calls to the same number ?

[Gokan Atmaca]

>Someone reported me that from a PBX on which someone gained fraudulent
>access, he could observe hundreds of calls to the same destination
>number.

>For curiosity's sake, I'm wondering why would this happen (dialing the
>same number over and over) ?

>Some special numbers generate here and there revenues for callees (and
>not for callers).
>Beside sharing interests with the callee that get those revenues, why
>a hacker would like to dial the same numbers over and over ?
>In other words, in this case, is looking at callee number a promising
>path to find hackers ?

Is there a bot virus ? Do you IP address restrictions ?




On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Administrator TOOTAI <admin at tootai.net> wrote:
> Le 01/10/2014 11:40, Olivier a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>
>
> Hi
>
>>
>> Someone reported me that from a PBX on which someone gained fraudulent
>> access, he could observe hundreds of calls to the same destination
>> number.
>>
>> For curiosity's sake, I'm wondering why would this happen (dialing the
>> same number over and over) ?
>>
>> Some special numbers generate here and there revenues for callees (and
>> not for callers).
>> Beside sharing interests with the callee that get those revenues, why
>> a hacker would like to dial the same numbers over and over ?
>
>
> callee is also the bad men. Go and buy an 899 number in France, hack PBXS
> and call your number :-)
>
> [...]
>
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> Daniel
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