Fraud Orders
Fraudent orders.
DDoS Attack
Participating in distributed denial-of-service (usually part of botnet).
FTP Brute-Force
None
Ping of Death
Oversized IP packet.
Phishing
Phishing websites and/or email.
Fraud VoIP
None
Open Proxy
Open proxy, open relay, or Tor exit node.
Web Spam
Comment/forum spam, HTTP referer spam, or other CMS spam.
Email Spam
Spam email content, infected attachments, phishing emails, and spoofed senders (typically via exploited host or SMTP server abuse). Note: Limit comments to only relevent information (instead of log dumps) and be sure to remove PII if you want to remain anonymous.
Blog Spam
CMS blog comment spam.
VPN IP
Conjunctive category.
Port Scan
Scanning for open ports and vulnerable services.
Hacking
None
SQL Injection
Attempts at SQL injection.
Spoofing
None
Brute-Force
Credential brute-force attacks on webpage logins and services like SSH, FTP, SIP, SMTP, RDP, etc. This category is seperate from DDoS attacks.
Bad Web Bot
Webpage scraping (for email addresses, content, etc) and crawlers that do not honor robots.txt. Excessive requests and user agent spoofing can also be reported here.
Exploited Host
Host is likely infected with malware and being used for other attacks or to host malicious content. The host owner may not be aware of the compromise. This category is often used in combination with other attack categories.
Web App Attack
Attempts to probe for or exploit installed web applications such as a CMS like WordPress/Drupal, e-commerce solutions, forum software, phpMyAdmin and various other software plugins/solutions.
SSH
Secure Shell (SSH) abuse. Use this category in combination with more specific categories.
IoT Targeted
Abuse was targeted at an "Internet of Things" type device. Include information about what type of device was targeted in the comments.