Hello, www.deploylinux.net, which uses zope as its backend, was hacked on 3:30pm Tuesday afternoon. We know this because two new users were created in the /etc/shadow file and the following email was sent: From: root <root> Message-Id: <200001182346.PAA16613@yoda.colo.jalan.com> To: dz@noxiin.com Subject: yoda.colo.jalan.com * shadow detected, no login backdoor * in.rshd (atif) installed! * bLACK pANTHER kit installed @ yoda.colo.jalan.com / 216.33.174.217 The server runs only Zope 2.1, a recent version of sendmail, ftp, and an amanda client over SSH. Everything else was disabled. While identifying the source of the breakin, we noticed that a new file had been created in one of the zope directories, and that the root history logs showed that this file had been executed. Therefore, we are trying to find out if this is an active zope exploit. The server was protected by a firewall on lower level ports other than SMTP, ftp, and http. We've removed the new users and are in the process of resecuring the box. We are interested if anyone else has seen similiar events? Hopefully this info will be beneficial to others in the community. Thanks, M. Marlowe -- Matthew Marlowe http://www.jalan.com/ (p) 909.799.3805 mmarlowe@jalan.com Jalan Network Services (f) 909.799.3285 "Quality Web Hosting, Network, Linux, and Solaris Consulting"