Dear Mr ricardo,
We received a security alert from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).
Please see the original report included below for details.
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Abuse team
On 28 Mar 16:17,
reports@reports.cert-bund.de wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> the Portmapper service (portmap, rpcbind) is required for mapping RPC
> requests to a network service. The Portmapper service is needed e.g.
> for mounting network shares using the Network File System (NFS).
> The Portmapper service runs on port 111 tcp/udp.
>
> In addition to being abused for DDoS reflection attacks, the
> Portmapper service can be used by attackers to obtain information
> on the target network like available RPC services or network shares.
>
> Over the past months, systems responding to Portmapper requests from
> anywhere on the Internet have been increasingly abused DDoS reflection
> attacks against third parties.
>
> Affected systems on your network:
>
> Format: ASN | IP | Timestamp (UTC) | RPC response
> 24940 | 195.201.34.000 | 2018-03-27 06:24:23 | 100000 4 111/udp; 100000 3 111/udp; 100000 2 111/udp; 100000 4 111/udp; 100000 3 111/udp; 100000 2 111/udp;
>
> We would like to ask you to check this issue and take appropriate
> steps to secure the Portmapper services on the affected systems or
> notify your customers accordingly.
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