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dunham on Dec 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: VNC Roulette

Maybe some of these vnc servers were put up after the machines were broken into, as a means of remote access for the attackers.

Alupis on Dec 29, 2014 | [–]

No, he probably got one of the many CirrOS boxes, which tell you the username and password, alongside a kind note that the default user has full sudo privileges.

Volundr on Dec 29, 2014 | [–]

Possibly, but several of them seem to be QEMU instances with VNC setup.

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