[Imc-tech] bollywood flood

[Zachary C. Miller]

Someone uploaded some huge encrypted .zip files to our server and
we've been FLOODED with download attempts on these files for a couple
of days. The files seem to be named with the names of bollywood
artists (as far as I can tell from google) and they seem to be
encrypted zip's containing WMV files (but without the password I can't
verify).

I have moved all of these files from their original filename to the
same file name with -BAK so that people can't download them. 

21618065 Apr 14 05:09 /var/www/ucimc/usermedia/application/1/Kathalukku_Mariyathai_-_Ennai_Thalata.zip-BAK*
29802372 Apr 14 14:54 /var/www/ucimc/usermedia/application/11/Vedham_-_Muthal_Poo.zip-BAK*
21618065 Apr 14 08:00 /var/www/ucimc/usermedia/application/2/Kathalukkv_Mariyathai_-_Ennai_Thalata.zip-BAK*
30704594 Apr 13 06:14 /var/www/ucimc/usermedia/application/4/Khakee_-__Dil_Dooba.zip-BAK*
49620960 Apr 12 08:18 /var/www/ucimc/usermedia/application/6/Jayam_-_Kavithaye_Theriyuma.zip-BAK*

I've also banned the IP addresses of several machines that were
clogging up our bandwidth trying to download these files. Since we
don't have IP tracking for the IMC website I can't track down everyone
that was trying to access these files, only the few people who were
actively accessing them when I happened to notice a slowdown and get
on and kill their connection. 

The following hosts are currently blocked at the IP level:

cache3.nottingham.ac.uk 
210-5-203-20.reverse.newskies.net 
lns-vlq-26-82-255-155-250.adsl.proxad.net 

All of these are overseas hosts: England, France, and India. 

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