I'm hit all the time too, but it's usually scripted, and they'll try 6 -
8 logins before my DenyHosts script bans the IP address. In this case,
there is only one login attempt, and it with root .. then that source IP
doesn't try again .. it's as if someone just got some default password
or maybe a blank one and has asked an entire botnet to try it once for
all machines on the Internet .. it's weird!
Gary B
bigbadhoss@gmail.com wrote:
These happen all the time on my servers, probably just background
noise, but it could be something else.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Baribault <gary@baribault.net>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 08:27:15
To:incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: Weird SSH attack last night and this morning (still ongoing)
I don't know what is going on last night and this morning ... I have
three Linux servers facing the Internet, two on cable modems and another
on a static IP/commercial connection and this last one is a gateway to a
Web/FTP/SMTP/Pop3/NTP Linux based system.
I have DenyHosts installed on all three and have blocked about 75
attempts .. from known compromised adresses .. The log shows
(obviously) that there where even more attempts from adresses that are
unknown to DenyHosts but there was only one login attemps per adress and
it was with the Root account .. which is obviously blocked in my sshd
config ..
Of the three machines, one of them only had about 10 attempts, but the
other two had about 200 attempts .. all of them with only 1 try with the
user Root ..
Is any one else seing this? or am I being targeted? This is still going
on now .. and it started arround 10:00 last night GMT+4
