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Date:      Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:32:50 +0200
From:      Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>, Liste FreeBSD-security <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Attacks on ssh port
Message-ID:  <DAE96C6F-096E-11D9-AE98-000D93B1A412@patpro.net>
In-Reply-To: <414C2798.7060509@withagen.nl>
References:  <414C2798.7060509@withagen.nl>

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On 18 sept. 2004, at 14:18, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a security problem with ssh that I've missed???
> Ik keep getting these hords of:      Failed password for root from 
> 69.242.5.195 port 39239 ssh2
> with all kinds of different source addresses.
>
> They have a shot or 15 and then they are of again, but a little later 
> on they're back and keep clogging my logs.
> Is there a "easy" way of getting these ip-numbers added to the 
> blocking-list of ipfw??


not a ssh related problem, it's just a brute force attack, I'm 
experiencing this on every servers I have, more than 10 times a day. 
I'm really thinking about releasing the list of attackers IP to the 
public. As far as I know, it's a pack of compromised machines.

patpro



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