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Re: [Full-disclosure] Distributed SSH username/password brute forceattack
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Distributed SSH username/password brute forceattack
- From: Anders B Jansson <hdw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 00:04:06 +0200
A.L.M.Buxey@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Oct 22 20:36:13 nms sshd[90657]: Failed password for invalid user gopher
>> from 77.46.152.2 port 55120 ssh2
>
> user/password authentication for SSH? one way of cleaning up your
> logs and killing this type of attack is to reconfigure your OpenSSH
> to only allow key based logins. stopped my 10M+ logfiles straight away
An even better way is to punt the attackers to a 'silent drop' table in your
firewall.
Cuts your logs to nothing and keeps the kiddies wasting their time.
The latest attack surge is either directed or a bit more clever, haven't seen
anything on my random user DSL traps.
--
// hdw
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