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ReadyNAS Pro Business Hacked/Compromised
I have a real problem. About a month ago, my ISP (Time Warner) quarantined my public IP. When I called them, I was told that there was a complaint from Europe that my public IP was trying to brute for...
The cisco user, did you ever via SSH change the default shell for them? Normal users don't get bash access by default, so FTP guy would be limited to FTP. May have been a ProFTPd exploit somehow that got them escalated privileges. If a shell was set for that user, likely a bruteforce or something let them in. FTP is not secure, sends password in plain text, not hard to sniff it.
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